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"Meanwhile at the Café de la Mort...Ernest Hemingway is ridiculing Oscar Wilde's wine spritzer while Truman Capote takes notes." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
266084
Accession number
MA 11569
Creator
Ziegler, Jack.
Published
1989.
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Dec. 4, 1989.
227 x 304 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Dec. 13, 1989" -- in ink on verso with artist's signature; copyright 1989 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AH 5088. Editorial notes in pencil on verso: "Query: should Hemingway be drinking hard liquor, not beer?" Drawing was not altered further for publication.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
In an outdoor cafe scene, a beer drinking Hemingway points and laughs at a dandy Wilde at another table, while Capote holds his hat and writes in the background.
Medium
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite and correction fluid, on paper.
Classification