The Heritage Auction Illustration Art Auction which closed on June 14th was a record-breaking event on many fronts.
A charcoal sketch by Norman Rockwell entitled, Girl Observing Lovers on a Train, originally done as a study for a Saturday Evening Post cover, sold for $203,150. That's the third highest price ever paid for a sketch done by the legendary American artist, as well as the highest price paid at a Heritage auction in six years.
An illustration by the legendary Dr. Seuss fetched the princely sum of just under $18,000. Haddon Sundblom's End of the Road went for a little over $19,000. Sundblom is the cat what painted the iconic Santa Claus ads for Coca-Cola in the early 20th-Century.
The auction house was so excited by the prices this category garnered that they said they were going to place more focus on this category in the future. A spokesperson for the auction house noted that the original works brought at least $5000 each "across the board."
Other featured artists included Boris Vallejo and Gil Elvgren, among others.
A rambling melange of pop-culture.
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