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Alex RossHow Sure Can You Be? McCall's Magazine Illustration of Loving Couple1949
1949
$265,000
£198,348.57
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CHF 213,991.37
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NOK 2,726,081.73
SEK 2,577,086.15
DKK 1,710,371.90
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Alexander Sharpe Ross - or Alex Ross. This work is a perfect artistic statement with every formal element in perfect harmony. It's a masterfully balanced composition combined with two beautifully rendered narrative portraits that drive this mid-century illustration masterpiece. The disposition of the figures as they relate to surrounding colors and shapes makes this work somewhat unique. Ross was a top illustrator and did commissions for Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, and Reader's Digest. Signed lower left

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