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WAAM Fine Arts Benefit Auction

Fri, Dec 8, 2017 07:00PM EST - Sat, Dec 9, 2017 07:00PM EST
Lot 39

ALICE (b. 1918) AND MARTIN PROVENSEN (1916-1987): DON QUIXOTE II; AND DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZO

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Two gouache and wash on paperboard, both signed 'Alice and Martin Provensen' lower right. Both 13 x 25 in. (sheet), unframed. Note: Alice and Martin Provensen illustrated more than forty children's books together. In 1984 they won the Caldecott Medal for The Glorious Fight, which they wrote and illustrated. The couple lived at Maple Hill Farm in Staatsbury, NY.,