August 2021 Catalogue

Original Watercolor By George Barbier 4. BARBIER, George. Original watercolor [“Les Patins à Roulettes”]. Paris, circa 1905. Original watercolor and wash on paper; framed. $3800. Original large watercolor and wash image of a young woman on roller skates, in a feathered hat and a long skirt, by legendary fashion designer and painter George Barbier, with his stamp in the lower right corner. Renowned for his fashion plates in leading contemporary magazines, including the Gazette du Bon Ton and Vogue , Barbier’s artistic style is readily identifiable by his elegant, stylized line. Here his roller skater is wearing a wool sweater, a long skirt, and a feathered hat. Faint traces of a few pencil sketch marks. Fine condition. Splendid Hand-Colored Bodmer Aquatint, One Of The Fine “Vignette” Impressions, With His Embossed Stamp 5. BODMER, Karl. Hand-colored aquatint [“Biberbau am Missouri” (“Beaver Hut on the Missouri”)]. Coblenz, London, Paris, 1839. Single sheet, plate impression measures 12-1/2 by 9 inches, framed. $2000. Original hand-colored aquatint Plate XVII, first state, one of the 33 “vignettes” from Karl Bodmer’s magnificent picture-atlas, produced for Maximilian Wied-Neuwied’s Travels in the Interior of North America (1839-1843). As seen by Bodmer on July 17, 1833, this superb hand- colored aquatint of beavers building their dam on the banks of the Missouri is one of a series of drawings made as the Maximilian-Bodmer Missouri River expedition worked its way under sail from Fort Union to Fort McKenzie aboard the keelboat Flora —fighting swift currents, rain and mosquitos. The print is vignette number XVII, with the three requisite imprint statements, captions in German, French and English, and with the name of the artist—“C. Bodmer, Direct.”— embossed on the plate. First state , without a date in the imprint statement. Impression crisp, colors bright and true. A rare Bodmer image, infine condition. Large Original Drawing Of Clifford The Big Red Dog, Inscribed By Author/Illustrator Norman Bridwell 6. BRIDWELL, Norman. Original drawing inscribed. No place, no date. Single sheet of unlined paper from a spiral sketchbook, measuring 10-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 18 by 22 inches. $2200. Wonderful large original drawing of a sheepish Clifford, inscribed: “For Scott, N. Bridwell,” attractively framed. “Mr. Bridwell’s classic character, a bloodhound the size of a house and the color of a fire engine, joined the literary animal kingdom in 1963 with the publication of ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’… By Clifford’s 50th birthday—a heralded event in children’s literature—he had become an animal celebrity on the order of the monkey Curious George or Babar the elephant” ( Washington Post ). A beautiful drawing of an iconic children’s book character, most desirable inscribed. F r a m e d ! 2 0 2 1 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s 5 4