Pogany, WillyBiblio.com
POGANY, WillyBiblio.com
Original artwork for A Treasury of Verse for Little Children: "Wynken Blynken and Nod".
19081697681908. Wynken Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe. Published as a colour plate within a selection by M. G. Edgar entitled A Treasury of Verse for Little Children and illustrating Eugene Field's classic bedtime poem "Wynken Blynken and Nod". The volume was first published in 1908 by G. G. Harrap and featured eight colour plates by Pogany. One contemporary review of Pogany's illustrations described them as "beautiful" The Sphere. Another noted "fantastic pretty drawings by Willy Pogany" Saturday Review. The original poem by the writer Eugene Field 1850-1895 frequently called the "poet of childhood" was published in 1889. It has been set to music on numerous occasions became the basis for a Walt Disney "Silly Symphony" cartoon in 1938 and inspired Mabel Landrum Torrey's 1919 fountain sculpture in Denver's Washington Park. Original drawing 217 x 160 mm on paper laid down on artist's board 270 x 215 mm ink and watercolour signed with artist's monogram lower right. Mounted framed and glazed glazed size 390 x 310 mm. A fine and unfaded watercolour. Saturday Review of Politics Literature Art and Science 13 December 1908 supplement p. xii; The Sphere 5 December 1908 p. 718. unknown
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni5 750,00 £GB≈ 6 565,35 €
