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NEARLY COMPLETE BOOK ART BY HILARY KNIGHT FOR HIS CINDERELLA. Archive of 21 watercolors (including one unused cover design) for Cinderella image 1
NEARLY COMPLETE BOOK ART BY HILARY KNIGHT FOR HIS CINDERELLA. Archive of 21 watercolors (including one unused cover design) for Cinderella image 2
NEARLY COMPLETE BOOK ART BY HILARY KNIGHT FOR HIS CINDERELLA. Archive of 21 watercolors (including one unused cover design) for Cinderella image 3
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NEARLY COMPLETE BOOK ART BY HILARY KNIGHT FOR HIS CINDERELLA.
Archive of 21 watercolors (including one unused cover design) for Cinderella

5 December 2018, 10:00 EST
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NEARLY COMPLETE BOOK ART BY HILARY KNIGHT FOR HIS CINDERELLA.

Archive of 21 watercolors (including one unused cover design) for Cinderella (primarily, New York: Random House, 1978), including new covers and endpapers for the redesigned 2000 edition, watercolor and sepia ink over pencil with overlays of texts, each 200 x 400 mm, some tears of overlays with some loss.
WITH: two artist's dummies; five preliminary drawings in pencil for the cover and characters; assorted correspondence concerning the book's publication; a set of color proofs; and signed copies of the finished hardcover and paperback books.

One of the few children's books that Hilary Knight has both written and illustrated. Mr. Knight was offended when a reviewer said that the prince in his Beauty and the Beast (1959) was "not only blonde and bland." "So in Cinderella I decided to create a really offbeat prince and one who was well fed," he says. The model for Prince Charming was singer-song writer Paul Williams, "very popular with young girls, cherubic, blonde and plump," as he appeared in Brian De Palma's The Phantom of the Paradise (1974). "I dedicated [the book] to my mother who at the time was in the hospital," he recalled; "to my real pain she never saw the book. Her favorite costume period was the 1840s and I created a setting for the book to honor that." When Random House contacted him in 2000 to reissue Cinderella, he enlarged the format and added new endpapers. "The back ends have a special dedication to my mother and her photograph."

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