
Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
Raj Circus Fantasy
Session begins in
November 21, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Bid
85,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1874 - 1951
Raj Circus Fantasy
signed JC Leyendecker (center right); signed JC Leyendecker (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 ½ by 19 ¼ in.
59.7 by 48.9 cm.
Executed in 1916.
Private Collection, Chicago
Butterfields, San Francisco & Los Angeles, 14 June 2000, lot 2187
Acquired at the above sale in 2000 by the present owner
Tennessee, Knoxville Museum of Art, Distant Lands: The Art of the Story: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 2001
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, Norman Rockwell and the Artists of New Rochelle, 2002
New York, The Society of Illustrators, Americans Abroad: J.C. Leyendecker and the European Academic Influence on American Illustration, 2008, no. 80
Malibu, Pepperdine University, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration from the Kelly Collection, 2013, p. 61, illustrated in color
The Saturday Evening Post, 17 June 1916, illustrated on the cover
Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America 1880-1980, New York, 1984, p. 99
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 17, 1916 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
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