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Classic original artwork for a one-panel New Yorker cartoon showing a woman wiring a bomb into her husband's lunch box, accomplished in pen and ink by Addams on 14.25 x 14.25 artist's board, signed in the lower right corner in ink, "Chas. Addams." Stamped on the reverse: "The New Yorker, Editorial Department, 25 West 43rd Street." In fine condition.
A quintessential example of Charles Addams’s darkly comic genius, this original drawing created for The New Yorker captures the artist’s sly subversion of domestic normalcy. Rendered in rich washes of ink and gray tone, the scene transforms an everyday kitchen into a stage for macabre humor, as an otherwise ordinary woman calmly tends to her unsettling contraption. Addams’s expressive line and deadpan wit are on full display, making this a superb work by one of the most influential cartoonists of the 20th century.
From the personal collection of a lifelong collector, teacher, and traveler with a passion for world history. His collecting years ranged from the 1970s to the present day, meaning that several of the premier pieces have not been on the market in decades.
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