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Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Raj Circus Fantasy

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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.