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A PAIR OF HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLORS OF ANN MILLER, "I'M STILL HERE."
Watercolor, ink, crayon and pencil,

5 December 2018, 10:00 EST
New York

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A PAIR OF HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLORS OF ANN MILLER, "I'M STILL HERE."

Watercolor, ink, crayon and pencil, executed live during a performance of the 1998 Paper Mill production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, on one sheet, 440 x 350 mm, signed and dated in ink lower right, "Hilary Knight June 98."

Mr. Knight and Miss Miller had been friends since the time he designed the poster for Sugar Babies (1979) in which Miss Miller starred. Appearing in a revival of Follies in 1998, the old trooper literally stopped the show. "The fact of the matter is, Ms. Miller is sincere -- heartbreakingly, splendidly so -- when she performs 'I'm Still Here,'' the great anthem to survival in show business," raved Ben Brantley in The New York Times. He called the former "peppy, raven-haired tap dancer with the keyboard smile in MGM movie musicals" "the very essence of this emotionally rich, exquisite-looking production." Mr. Knight has captured her effervescent essence in these affectionate studies.

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