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A Hilary Knight portrait of Gale Sondergaard as the Wicked Witch of the West

30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

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A Hilary Knight portrait of Gale Sondergaard as the Wicked Witch of the West

Watercolor, ink and pencil on illustration board, matted. Unused illustration for Laura Jacobs, "Glamour, By Adrian," Vanity Fair, June 2000. Titled in ink and color pencil and signed in ink "Hilary Knight."

The original concept for the villain of The Wizard of Oz (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939) was quite different from the final version. As Hilary Knight notes, "This was an early version of the Wicked Witch character ... a glamorous Witch based on the Queen in the Snow White Disney cartoon of 1937 ... the role ultimately went to Margaret Hamilton." Mr. Knight adds: "My Oz research revealed Gale Sondergaard's brief turn as a glamorous Wicked Witch with a black sequin cape. She bowed out when they decided an ugly witch was needed, and Margaret Hamilton famously took over. Although there are no photos that show it, I gave Gale a black bugle bead witch's broom."
Overall: 23 x 16 in.; Image size: 16 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.

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