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Lot 1029

AN ORIGINAL HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR FOR WHERE'S WALLACE?
used as color separation for the dust jacket of the Hilary Knight's children's book Where's Wallace

6 – 13 December 2018, 10:00 EST
New York

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AN ORIGINAL HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR FOR WHERE'S WALLACE?

used as color separation for the dust jacket of the Hilary Knight's children's book Where's Wallace (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), watercolor on blue proof with Xeroxed black line acetate overlay, 250 x 600 mm, matted.

Where's Wallace? is a popular puzzle picture book in which the child was invited to locate the runaway orangutan hidden in every full-color spread. The concept was shamelessly copied by British cartoonist Martin Handford in his 1987 international bestseller Where's Waldo? (a. k. a. Where's Wally?). To get the line as clean as possible in reproduction, the artist drew each double-page color spread in India ink only and then had it photographed as a blue proof on watercolor paper. Then he applied the colors. This was the same technique used for the color separations of Maurice Sendak's modern classic Where the Wild Things Are (1963). Mr. Knight included a self-portrait on the back flap.

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