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Louise Rainer in A Kiss For Cinderella

Artist:James Montgomery Flagg
Date:1942
Medium:Watercolor on artists paper
Dimensions:Sight Size 8 1/2" X 11" Framed 16 1/4" X 19"
Condition:Some wear and losses around edges of sheet - displays well as framed
Original Use:Illustration of Unknown usage
Price:$1,350.00  $945.00
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The artist’s abbreviated signature lower left

James Montgomery Flagg’s watercolor sketches were an endless source of amusement and cheer to his friends and colleagues.  Here, the artist works to cheer up his friend Cecil Humpheys after the poor reviews of the 1942 revival of J.M. Barrie’s play A Kiss for Cinderella in which he starred alongside Louise Rainer.

Flagg depicts laughably unflattering and off-kilter versions of all the central characters in the production (Humphreys, Rainer, Ralph Forbes and the playwright himself) and describes the scene as “A Kiss For Cinderella as seen by those sons-of-bitches the critics of 1942.”

Even in this quick working the wit and technical precision of Flagg is on display. Painting is framed behind glass in a handsome period frame.

Detail
Detail
Framed under glass in a handsome period antique frame

Louise Rainer in A Kiss For Cinderella

Artist: James Montgomery Flagg
Price: $1,350.00  $945.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Gag Cartoon, hollywood, James Montgomery Flagg, Louise Rainer, Satire, satirical, The Good Earth
Added to Gallery: May 14, 2019

 

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