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William Steig Set 7 Original Ink Illustration Drawings
Description: Seven individual pen and ink drawings on paper, framed together (no glass). The fourth drawing is the only drawing signed in ink lower right: "W. Steig". The remaining six sketches are unsigned.Price Comparison: Recent auction records from the artist:
Sale of Swann Galleries: Thursday, June 08, 2006 [Lot 262];William Steig; Title Come and get me! (+ 14 others, 1 stamped; 15 works, various sizes); Medium pen and ink drawings; Size Height 5.7 in.; Width 4.9 in. / Height 14.5 cm.; Width 12.4 cm.; Misc. Signed, Inscribed Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 US$; Sold For 8,000 US$ -and- Sale of Skinner: Friday, May 16, 2003 [Lot 387] William Steig; Title Caricature sketches for Butcher Polish Company; Medium Pen and Ink; Size Height 10 in.; Width 10 in.; Misc. Signed; Estimate 3,000 - 3,500 US$; Sold For 1,880 US$. -and->Sale of Illustration House: Saturday, May 21, 2005 [Lot 117] William Steig; Title Oh, you dirty little liar: Seated woman speaking on telephone (New Yorker cartoon); Medium pen, ink and watercolor en grisaille; Year of Work 1934; Size Height 7.2 in.; Width 4.2 in.; Signed Estimate 1,500 - 2,500 US$; Sold For 1,350 US$. Dimensions: Various sizes; each paper measuring approximately 4 x 5in. (sight). Frame: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2in. Weight: 2lbs. Condition: Each: Attached to mat with archival tape at upper corners verso. Slight darkening to paper throughout. Significant adhesive staining to each paper verso from prior mounting. A few minor areas of staining scattered throughout images. Light soiling to surface throughout. Soft creasing to paper. Otherwise, all in good condition overall. Artist's Biography:
William Steig (November 14, 1907 October 3, 2003) was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature. Most notable for creating Shrek, which turned into the popular movie series. Called the "King of Cartoons" by Newsweek, William Steig carved out dual careers as both a highly respected and entertaining cartoonist and an award-winning, best-selling author of children's picture books and novels. Illustrating for The New Yorker since 1930, Steig produced more than sixteen-hundred drawings as well as one hundred seventeen covers for that publication. His cartooning work is collected in more than a dozen books. Beginning in 1968, at the age when others are contemplating retirement, the then sixty-one-year-old Steig launched a career in children's books, bringing to that medium the same tongue-in-cheek and sometimes gallows humor that has made his adult work so popular. With his third title, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, he captured the prestigious Caldecott Medal. Many critics, including Roger Angell writing an appreciation of his colleague in The New Yorker, consider this to be "still his masterpiece." His first venture into children's novels, the 1972 Dominic, won for Steig the coveted Christopher Award. Other award winners followed: the Newbery Honor Books Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto, as well as such popular picture books as Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride, The Amazing Bone, Yellow & Pink, Brave Irene, and Spinky Sulks. Steig's book sales worldwide approach two million. [Source: ]
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