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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 293

Dr Seuss "Singing Cats" Lithograph

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Starting Bid
$500

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$500,000 $10,000

Plate Signed lower Left. Numbered lower right. 

Limited Edition: 497/850

 

Image: 22" Tall x 32" Wide 

 

Condition: Toning to the edges of the paper. The edges slighlty curl upwards. Pigment notes around the edges. 

 

Artist Bio: Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), known to generations of readers as Dr. Seuss, trained his eye long before he wrote for children. After Dartmouth and a brief stay at Oxford, he worked through the 1920s and 1930s as a cartoonist and advertising artist, drew political cartoons for the New York newspaper PM during the Second World War, and made training films for the Army. "The Cat in the Hat" of 1957 changed how American children learned to read, and his books went on to sell in the hundreds of millions.

Alongside the books, Geisel painted and drew for himself, often late at night, producing a private body of work he rarely showed. Cats, above all the striped, top hatted cat of 1957, run through both his published and his private art. The "Singing Cats" image began as a concept drawing for "The Cat in the Hat Songbook" of 1967 and was among the works shown in the 1986 retrospective of his art at the San Diego Museum of Art. After his death, his widow Audrey Geisel authorized limited editions of his artwork, bringing images from the books and the studio to a wider public.

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