"“I had the pleasure of knowing your dear departed husband” " Lot no. 910
By Tom Lovell (1909-1997)
1941 (Estimated)
34.00" x 30.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
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Magazine story illustration for “Saratoga Trunk” by Edna Ferber for Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, published July 1941, pages 42-43.
The full caption reads: “‘Mrs. de Chanfrêt, I had the pleasure of knowing your dear departed husband,’ Mrs. Bellop boomed—and then closed one eye in a portentous wink.”
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Had an extreme attention for detail and rarely completed more then a dozen major oil paintings a year. He was a Freelance illustrator for many well-known magazines including Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post and become known as a pulp illustrator. His work depicting life in the old west earned him his reputation of Dean of Western Art and allowed him to win just about every major Western Art prize that exist. He was voted into the Society of Illustrators in 1974 and was chosen to receive two Gold Metals.