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        • George Booth original illustration for New Yorker, "Let's Swap Some Cats"
          Aug. 05, 2017

          George Booth original illustration for New Yorker, "Let's Swap Some Cats"

          Est: $600 - $900

          George Booth (American, b. 1926) collage on paper with gouache or correction fluid, pen and ink. Original comic illustration for The New Yorker Magazine, October 3, 1988, captioned "Let's Swap Some Cats Today". Depicts elderly neighbor ladies with an overflow of cats chatting from their porches, while an elderly man glowers out at the viewer. Signed "Booth" lower right. Stamped label verso, "The New Yorker Editorial Department", with a copy of the cartoon clipped from the magazine taped to the back. Ivory mat and whitewashed wood frame. 10 1/2" x 8 3/4" sight, 16 1/2" x 13 1/2" framed. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): George Booth started drawing as a youngster, encouraged by his mother who was a comic artist, and was exposed to the world of public media when he worked as a type setter at the local newspaper. Booth served in the U.S. Marines where he did cartoons for The Leatherneck Magazine. After this service, he studied at the Chicago Academy of Art, Corcoran School of Art and School of the Visual Arts in New York City. In 1960 he became a contributing artist for the The New Yorker. He also served as Art Director of some trade magazines, illustrated children's books, and drew cartoons for the New York Times. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)

          Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals
        • George Booth Signed Framed New Yorker Comic
          Jan. 01, 2016

          George Booth Signed Framed New Yorker Comic

          Est: $80 - $120

          George Booth Signed Framed New Yorker Comic. Depicting a dog tearing up slippers while cat and wife watch and husband snoozes. 18" x 18".

          Greenwich Auction
        • BOOTH, GEORGE.
          Dec. 04, 2007

          BOOTH, GEORGE.

          Est: $8,000 - $12,000

          29 original illustrations on paper, in pen, ink, wash, and colored marker. Together with an Autograph Letter (unsigned) and an Autograph Note Signed, both to Henry Morgan; 2 books co-authored by Henry Morgan; and 5 signed reproductions. 3 1/2 x 4 inches to 12 x 10 inches. Some mounted on illustration board, some matted, some framed. General wear, including offsetting from glue, text overlay losses, tape, and small tears. A group of original sketches, finished drawings, letters, and books by the esteemed New Yorker cartoonist, including several illustrations published in the New Yorker from 1972 to 1978. Booth's style, characterized by rumpled, harried Everymen (and equally rumpled cats and bull terriers) trying to cope with the perplexing intricacies of modern life, has become one of the most recognizable visual signatures of the magazine. Booth created his first cartoons while serving in the Marines in WWII, as a staff cartoonist for the Corp's Leatherneck magazine. In civilian life he worked an unhappy stint as art director for a New York magazine. Disenchanted, he quit and decided to pursue cartooning, eventually finding a berth at the New Yorker . While under the tutelage of legendary editor William Shawn, Booth learned the value of a rougher, less polished style of cartooning which would preserve the sponteneity of his ideas. As Booth later recalled, "Shawn could see the value in my work early on. He saw value in my loose roughs. Sometimes he'd say, 'Just print the roughs.' My attitude at the time was, I can always do better. But sometimes a rough had so much feeling in it ... that you almost can't repeat it by doing a finish. You stiffen up. So he made me aware of that." Perhaps as a result of Shawn's influence, Booth became a virtuoso of collage, cutting choice bits from his roughs and splicing them into his finished drafts, in order to combine spontaneous expression with a more polished feel. Several of the cartoons in this lot aptly demonstrate Booth's facility at cut-and-paste technique, with surfaces that are a wonder of tactile richness, incorporating every stage of artistic development from draft to finished illustration. See illustration .

          Bonhams
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