Ludwig Bemelmans
Silly Willy Performing Seal Celebrates Happy Birthday, ca. 1935
Mixed Media,Watercolor,Gouache on Board
9 × 21 1/2 in / 22.9 × 54.6 cm
$ 15,000.00
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Bemelmans' character Silly Willy, who is a seal, assumes comic human behavior as he celebrates his Uncle Hubert's birthday. In the final hilarious panel, we see Willy in a top...
Bemelmans' character Silly Willy, who is a seal, assumes comic human behavior as he celebrates his Uncle Hubert's birthday. In the final hilarious panel, we see Willy in a top hat, offering a bouquet of fish to Hubert, who is smoking a handcrafted Meerschaum pipe. br Signed lower right. Published: Comic strip published Young America magazine for approximately two years, beginning in 1935. 9 x 21 1/2 in. (22.9 x 54.6 cm.), Frame: 15 x 27 1/2 in. (38.1 x 69.9 cm.) Framed under glass br Good - Very good - The Colors are more punchy and saturated than in most of Bemelmans' work.