Marc Simont - Ordovino, Illustration on paper

February 23, 2022

Lot 459

Marc Simont - Ordovino, Illustration on paper

Estimate: $250 - $350

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Marc Simont, French- American, 1915-2013, Isabel Jones & Curabel Lee, ink and watercolor on paper, poem written by American Poet David Thompson Watson McCord along with 3 20th C. Illustrations of 3 Men Smoking Pipes, signed Ordovino, possibly Ardovino. Note: Simont's first illustrated children's book was published in 1939. He won the 1957 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration, recognizing A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry, and he was a runner-up both in 1950 (The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss) and in 2002 (The Stray Dog retold by Simont).He also illustrated The 13 Clocks (1950) and The Wonderful O (1957) by the writer James Thurber; In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord (1984); Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner (1995); My Brother, Ant by Betsy Byars (1996); and The Beautiful Planet: Ours to Lose, which he also wrote (2010), and illustrated â€œThe Trail Driving Rooster” by Fred Gipson (1955).
(MMAT406/4)(MM)
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 15; 16 1/2 x 19 1/2, three Ordovino 9 x 5, framed 14 x 8
Property from a West Cornwall Connecticut Home and Former New Orleans Louisiana Antiques and Asian Art Collection

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