ID 1108938
Lot 139 | Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
Valeur estimée
£ 30 000 – 50 000
‘Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said’ [1928]
170 x 220mm, ink drawing, signed lower right corner (‘EH Shepard’), captioned in pencil (partially erased) below image ‘Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said. Are we alone?’, evidence of some pencil under-drawing.
This original illustration is reproduced on p.157 of The House at Pooh Corner (Methuen, 1928). It appears in Chapter 9 (‘In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It’).
Provenance: Richard Gimbel (1898-170) – Sotheby's New York, 18 June 1987, lot 126 [sold with, previously pasted to the front free endpaper of:]
A.A. Milne (1882-1956). The House at Pooh Corner. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co, Ltd, [1928]. Limited edition in the dust-jacket, this being no. 158 of 350 copies signed by both the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (222 x 176mm). Illustrations by E.H. Shepard throughout (front free endpaper soiled with remnants of adhesive). Original quarter cloth, printed paper label on upper board; printed dust-jacket (mild soiling, torn along upper joint, light wear to small blank area of upper wrapper as a result of adhesion).
| Artiste: | Ernest Howard Shepard (1879 - 1976) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre |
| Artiste: | Ernest Howard Shepard (1879 - 1976) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Royaume-Uni | |||||
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