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        • [Cartoonist Emery Kelen, Einstein]
          Apr. 27, 2024

          [Cartoonist Emery Kelen, Einstein]

          Est: $40 - $400

          Emery Kelen. Original artwork. Lot includes a framed self portrait in jail (as framed 11.75" x 9.75"), and a pen drawing of Einstein accompanied by a four page co-written article on lisping and personality (in which Einstein prominently features.) The latter on 4to leaves. ******** Emery Kelen (Hungarian, 1896-1978) was one of the most influential mid-century cartoonists. He fought in WWI and is especially well-known for his political cartoons, such as his caricatures of delegates from the League of Nations. He moved to New York in the 1930s and worked as a cartoonist; his work appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Washington Post, and other prominent publications.

          Addison & Sarova Auctioneers
        • Emeric Kelen,  - Indian Round-Table Conference 1930;  …
          Nov. 22, 2023

          Emeric Kelen,  - Indian Round-Table Conference 1930;  …

          Est: £400 - £600

          Emeric Kelen,  Hungarian 1896-1978-  Indian Round-Table Conference 1930;  hand coloured lithographs, each signed and inscribed 'Kelen' or 'Kelen / London' within the plate, each variously titled within the plate, the title page inscribed 'For Kind acceptance of Her Excellency / Lady Willingdon / CI CBE / From sincere friend / Nizam of Hyderabad VII / 1931' (upper edge), each 38.4 x 27.9 cm., fifty-two (52)., (unframed, in folio). ARR.  Provenance:  The Collection of Lady Willingdon (1875-1960).  Private Collection, UK.  Note:  The present work was a gift to Lady Willingdon from Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886-1967), the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad State, and the last ruling monarch before annexation, by India, in September 1948 through a military operation code named Operation Polo. Marie Freeman-Thomas, Lady Willingdon, was married to Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866-1941), who served as the Governor-General of Canada (1926-1931) and Viceroy of India (1931-1936).  Kelen produced caricatures and cartoons of political figures in inter-war Europe of the 1920s and 1930s, often collaborating with Alois Derso (1888-1964), whom he met in 1922. He was particularly well-known for his depictions of conferences, including the 1925 Locarno Conference, the 1932 World Disarmament Conference, the 1933 London Economic Conference, and the ongoing conferences of the League of Nations. He also produced cartoons of the participants of the three Round Table Conferences held in 1930-1932, a series of peace conferences organised by the British Government and Indian political figures to discuss constitutional reforms in India, and it is from one of these that the present set of caricatures originates. 

          Roseberys
        • Zeichnung, Kelen / Kelen, cartoon
          Dec. 04, 2021

          Zeichnung, Kelen / Kelen, cartoon

          Est: -

          Kelén-Klein, Emeric. 1896 Gyor-1978 Wien Originalkarikatur für die ''Meggendorfer Blätter'' mit Darstellung eines Paares beim Golfen mit Balljungen. 1927. Tuschfederzeichnung, sign., verso auf dem Untersatzpapier gestempelt mit Redaktionsstempel, num. ''5531''. 15 x 26 cm (PA). Die Karikatur wurde in den Meggendorfer Blättern veröffentlicht mit folgendem Text: ''Kritik'' - ''Für ein vernünftiges Golfspiel ist das hier gar kein Terrain'' - ''Also bleiben wir hier, Kurt!''. Emeric Kelén-Klein (1896 Gyor-1978 Wien): cartoon, 1927, signed. Published in Meggendorfer Blätter. 15 x 26 cm (passepartout cutout)

          Kunstauktionshaus Günther
        • Zeichnung, Kelen / Kelen, cartoon
          May. 29, 2021

          Zeichnung, Kelen / Kelen, cartoon

          Est: -

          Kelen, Emery. 1896 Gyor-1978 Wien Originalkarikatur für die ''Meggendorfer Blätter'' mit Darstellung eines Paares beim Golfen mit Balljungen. 1927. Tuschfederzeichnung, sign., verso auf dem Untersatzpapier gestempelt mit Redaktionsstempel, num. ''5531''. 15 x 26 cm (PA). Die Karikatur wurde in den Meggendorfer Blättern veröffentlicht mit folgendem Text: ''Kritik'' - ''Für ein vernünftiges Golfspiel ist das hier gar kein Terrain'' - ''Also bleiben wir hier, Kurt!''. Emery Kelen (1896 Gyor-1978 Wien): cartoon, 1927, signed. Published in Meggendorfer Blätter. 15 x 26 cm (passepartout cutout)

          Kunstauktionshaus Günther
        • Kelen, Emery: Indian Round-Table Conference
          Apr. 15, 2021

          Kelen, Emery: Indian Round-Table Conference

          Est: €600 - €900

          "a cartoonist who is brilliant and very cruel" -- Kelen, Emery Fl. Indian Round-Table Conference. 1 Bl. Titel, 2 Bl. Druckvermerk und 35 kolor. Karikatur-Abbildungen. 38 x 28 cm. Lose Bl. in OSchlangenlederimitat-Flügelmappe (Kanten und Ecken etwas berieben) mit 2 Schließbändern. In OLeinenschuber. London, E. Kelen, (1930). -- Als "epreuve d'artiste" bezeichnetes, nicht nummeriertes Exemplar (Gesamtauflage: 200 Ex.). Druckvermerk von Kelen signiert, sowie mit einer eigenhändigen Widmung von ihm versehen: "Herrn Dr. Glück freundlichst gewidmet E Kelen - 1930 Weihnachten"). Die Karikaturen zeigen die Teilnehmer der Konferenz, die den Dominion-Status des Subkontinents zum Thema hatte und zeitlich am Beginn der indischen Unabhängigkeitskampfes stand (Stichwort: Gandhis Salzmarsch). In einem Beitrag der University of Nottingham ist über Kelens Werk Folgendes zu lesen (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/conferencing-the-international/representations/caricature.aspx, abgerufen am 26.10.2020): -- "Emery Kelen (1896-1964) was one of the, if not the, most famous caricaturist of the interwar period. Pulled out of art college and drafted into the Hungarian army during the First World War, Kelen emerged as a lifelong opponent of war. In the 1920s, often collaborating with Alois Derso, Kelen crafted the art of depicting the political and diplomatic scene. Conferences were one of his key sites, with sought-after drawing produced at the 1925 Locarno Conference, the 1933 London Economic Conference, the 1932 World Disarmament Conference, and at the permanent conferencing of the League of Nations in Geneva. Lithographic portfolios could also be commissioned, as with these portraits (individual and table) produced during the first two sessions of the Round Table Conference. -- Kelen devotes a chapter of his reminiscences of the interwar period, Peace in Their Time (1963), to his coverage of the conference. He dismissed it politically, suggesting the delegates had been selected to create as little nuisance as possible; the sort of people who enjoyed watching white men carrying burdens. But he devoured it socially, relishing the mixes and clashes of personalities. While he clearly had Indian friends, he lapsed frequently into orientalist stereotypes of the irrational Indian, barely separate from the state of nature. Here, he recalled the opening of the conference in November 1930: 'Imagine the House of Lords gone mad. I sat in the balcony listening to King George V opening the Round Table Conference, and spread below me were the great banks of turbans, fluorescent in the Gothic dusk, sulphur yellow, hellish red, poison green, and shocking pink, and when the king had done they came to life and popped around like fireflies.' Added to his usual accentuation of body shape and facial expression came a whole new range of racial colouring. -- For the few female delegates there could also be a dose of body-shaming and casual misogyny. During the second conference session the Maharani of Baroda organised a charity ball to benefit Charing Cross Hospital. Kelen drew caricatures of the Indians there present and Sarojini Naidu later wrote to her children of the event that: 'Another long interval was occupied by a cartoonist then who is brilliant and very cruel. We had some R.T.C. cartoons then and there to the merriment of the audience; the one of me is terrible but it sold for 15 guineas then and there in aid of children’s hospital.' Kelen later described Naidu as one of the ladies '... who eat Hungarian caricaturists for breakfast. Her generous mouth followed an upward curve and ended in a malicious curl underscored by the shadow of a moustache.' He compared her gait to that of a pouter pigeon and criticised her use of golden jewellery. He admired her political work 'But face to face with my white paper, I became an ugly truth-teller. From the day I drew Mrs. Naidu’s portrait for the benefit of the Charing Cross Hospital, and half of Who’s Who roared, I lost a valued friend ... Fat poetess! I am one with Luther at the Diet of Worms: ‘Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me! Amen.' – Wohlerhaltenes, sauberes Exemplar des sehr seltenen Portfolios.

          Bassenge Auctions
        • DERSO, Alois & KELEN, Emery
          Oct. 09, 2020

          DERSO, Alois & KELEN, Emery

          Est: €70 - €90

          Pages Glorieuses - Days of Hope and Glory Tall folio, first edition, plain printed wraps with original glassine dust wrapper, with loose title and contents sheets and 28 loose single- or double-page reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings by the two Swiss artists lampooning current European and American diplomats, primarily concerning post-war Europe, 9 plates with original hand-coloring. 1/150 numbered copies on japon paper signed at limitation leaf by Derso and Kelen from total edition of 550 copies (plus 50 lettered copies). Very clean, in original board slipcase with moderate wear. We add 3 others (4)

          Auctions Van de Wiele
        • Imre (Emeric) Kelen, Hungarian 1896 - 1978, Drawing on Paper Hospital Visitor
          Feb. 22, 2018

          Imre (Emeric) Kelen, Hungarian 1896 - 1978, Drawing on Paper Hospital Visitor

          Est: $50 - $70

          Imre (Emeric) Kelen, Hungarian 1896 - 1978, Drawing on Paper Hospital Visitor

          Kavanagh Auctions
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