Lot 1171: DILLON, LEO. 1933-2012; and DIANE DILLON. b.1933.- "Mother Albirtha's eyes were as big as saucers when she saw the fish,"

"Mother Albirtha's eyes were as big as saucers when she saw the fish," acrylic on bristol board, 230 x 470 mm, signed in pencil "Leo & Diane Dillon" lower right. Published: The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), pp 38-39. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best remembered as the author of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Yearling (1938). The Rawlings Estate allowed her Newbery Honor Book The Secret River (1955) to be adapted as a picture book.