[Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Great Gatsby] | “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” - photo 1

[Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Great Gatsby] | “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Lot 1011
21.07.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 150 000
AuctioneerSotheby´s
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 796076
Lot 1011 | [Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Great Gatsby] | “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
[Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Great Gatsby]

An original draft of the cover art (marked "ARTIST PROOF") for The Great Gatsby, dated "NOV 1924"



Single sheet (240 x 490 mm). Ink, pencil, and watercolor on artists' paper, with manuscript annotations in ink and pencil; old folds, dampstaining along lower margin not affecting image, remnants of adhesive presumably where once mounted, one or two short splits to folds not affecting image.
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