Green Cat with Lights

$1,695

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Hand-Pulled Serigraph on Paper
Image and Paper Size: 24" x 36"
1/850-850/850 Arabic Numbers
1/99-99/99 Patron's Collection
1/155-155/155 Collaborator Proofs
1/5-5/5 Hors d’Commerce

Booby Trap

$750

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Hand-Pulled Serigraph on Paper
Image and Paper Size: 17" x 17"
1/850-850/850 Arabic Numbers
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1/155-155/155 Collaborator Proofs
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Wisdom of the Orient Cat

$2,195

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For Ted Geisel, the refined feline became his favorite muse, counting no fewer than twenty-two cats throughout The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss book.

In Wisdom of the Orient Cat, Ted Geisel blends the ancient philosophical and spiritual elements of the Orient into a commanding, yet serene artwork.

Serigraph on Canvas
Image Size: 44” x 22”
Edition Size:  1/850 – 850/850 Arabic Numbers
I/XCIX – XCIX/XCIX Patron Editions
1/155 – 155/155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’ Commerce
250 Reserved Deluxe Editions

View from a Window of a Rented Beach Cottage

$1,995

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Mixed Media Artwork with Window Frame
Image Size: 23" x 29.5" x 1.25"
1/850-850/850 Arabic Numbers
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The Stag at Eve

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As Pablo Picasso’s “Blue Period” is defined by blue dominate paintings from 1901–1904, Seuss’s “Deco Period” is noted specifically for black dominate backgrounds in a number of his most developed and completed paintings from the 1930’s to the 1940’s.

Arabic editions from Geisel’s “Deco Period,” including Elephant Presenting Flower to a Bird, Pink-Tufted Small Beast in a Night Landscape and Tower of Babel are now sold out and highly sought-after.

Serigraph on Panel
Image Size: 36” x 24”
Edition Size:  1/850 – 850/850 Arabic Numbers
I/XCIX – XCIX/XCIX Patron Editions
1/155 – 155/155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’ Commerce

Lion Stroll

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Throughout his career, Ted Geisel was fond of bold color, felines, and strong design; the three critical elements featured in his circa 1970’s oil painting, Lion Stroll.
 
In 1973, Theodor Seuss Geisel donated what he considered to be one of his important works, the lion wading pool, to the San Diego Wild Animal Park in California. Around this same time, Seuss painted Lion Stroll, an artwork that represents one of the finest examples of bold color throughout his entire oeuvre.
 
According to Cathy Goldsmith, his art director at Random House from 1980 through 1991, Ted was very particular and idiosyncratic concerning his use of color. “Just as some lucky people are blessed with perfect pitch, she believed a few like Ted are blessed with perfect color sense."
 
In this artwork, Seuss’s family pride of lions purposefully strolls along a path of inventively patterned trees as they explore their next adventure.

1 Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography, Judith and Neil Morgan, Random House 1995

Serigraph on Canvas
Image Size: 24” x 36”
Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’Commerce
2 Printer's Proofs

 

Gosh!, Do I Look as Old as All That!

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Gosh!, Do I Look as Old as all That! is from a special series of “La Jolla Birdwoman” paintings that Ted Geisel created in the early 1960s. This string of artworks is described in the November 1964 issue of McCall’s Magazine – “It delights Geisel, a bird watcher on the social scene, when he isolates the not-too-rare local species he calls the La Jolla Birdwoman as it functions in its native habitat of luncheons, parties, and charity balls.” (p. 201)
 
Other celebrated “La Jolla Birdwoman” images include I’d Love to Go to the Party but I’m Absolutely Dead, Martini Bird, My Petunia Can Lick Your Geranium, Not Speaking, Sunbathing Bird, Client with Architect, Raising Money for the Arts and View from a Window of a Rented Beach Cottage.

Gosh! is a perfect companion piece to Dr. Seuss’s Young Man Shaving.  A limited quantity of matched numbered suites of Young Man Shaving and Gosh! are reserved at the special price of $1,995 retail.

Image Size: 16” x 12”
Edition Size:  1/850 – 850/850 Arabic Numbers
I/XCIX – XCIX/XCIX Patron Editions
1/155 – 155/155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’ Commerce

The Manly Art of Self Defense

$995 (Unframed)

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The Manly Art of Self Defense is clearly one of Dr. Seuss’s appropriately satiric works in the vein of I’d Love to go to the Party, but I’m Absolutely Dead.  Revealing his “gentlemanly” side, Ted Geisel portrays the cultured expression of masculinity, which is acquired through a balanced regimen of intellectual and physical muscularity.  The wonderfully erudite expression on the boy’s face suggests “the manly art of self defense,” while the cat’s look of surprise suggests the boy is out of his mind.  Seuss’s take on boxing places it squarely as a “noble art” rather than a martial art.

Serigraph on Canvas
Image Size: 13.5" x 20"
Canvas Size: 17.5" x 24"
Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’Commerce

The Joyous Leaping of Uncanned Salmon

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Dr. Seuss was living and working in New York City as an editorial cartoonist in the 1930s when Surrealism crashed onto the art scene in the United States. Being a part of that explosive time had a profound impact on Ted's artistic ideas and development. His fascination with both the Surrealist and Dada movements becomes ingeniously clear in wry artworks such as The Joyous Leaping of Uncanned Salmon, Fooling Nobody, and I Dreamed I Was the Doorman at the Hotel Del Coronado.

As is the case with many of his paintings, Ted Geisel's titles provide a gateway to the logistical insanity of his creative imagination. In this piece, he serves up punchy color set against a geometric platform where paisley-styled "salmon" jump for joy. Seuss purposefully asks questions that he intends the viewers to answer for themselves such as, "Are these Salmon having a final celebration before their journey to the cannery, or have they completely escaped this unsavory predicament?"


Image Size:  24” x 30”
Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d' Commerce

The Rather Odd Myopic Woman Riding Piggyback on One of Helen’s Many Cats

$1,595 (Unframed)

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Myopic Woman encompasses elements of cubism, which was developed shortly after Seuss’s birth, between 1908 and 1912 in a collaboration between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Ted Geisel’s wife had many cats and it was inevitable they would one day appear in his artworks.


Image Size:  34” x 16.5”
Edition Size:  1/850 – 850/850 Arabic Numbers
I/XCIX – XCIX/XCIX Patron Editions
1/155 – 155/155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’ Commerce

Cat Detective in the Wrong Part of Town

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Long known as an avid cultural sponge, Ted Geisel created this work smack dab in the middle of Peter Sellers’ multiple movie turns as Inspector Clouseau.  Ted Geisel’s abstract expressionist style takes us to the heart of the crime, surrounding us with the architectural echoes that are uniquely and stylistically Seussian. 


Image Size:  36” x 28”
Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’Commerce

Freebird

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Image Size: 22” x 44”
Limited Edition of 495 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs
5 Hors d’Commerce

Fooling Nobody

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Seuss seems to suggest that no matter how big, inflated or different the image we try to portray, being ourselves is most important.  For despite our efforts, we are Fooling Nobody.  Seuss has a rich history of making fun of those who may think too much of themselves.


Image Size:  36” x 24”
Limited Edition of 375 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs

Relaxed in Spite of It

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Dr. Seuss lived high on a hilltop overlooking the decreasingly sleepy La Jolla Village during the second half of his life. This artwork gives you a sense that no matter how busy or crazy our lives get, there is always a place we can escape to, to be Relaxed in Spite of It.

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Image Size: 24” x 43”
Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs

Self Portrait Young Man Shaving

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Ted Geisel kept a file called the “shaving file” with ideas and concepts that came to him while shaving. He found shaving to be a very creative time. While shaving one morning, Ted pondered the swank New York party from the night before and compiled what he called his first poem. “Mrs. Van Bleck of the Newport Van Blecks / is so goddam rich, she has gold-plated sex / whereas Miggles and Mitzie and Bitzie and Sue / have the commonplace thing and it just has to do.”

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Image Size: 16” x 12”
Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs

Self-Portrait Artist Worrying

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Includes Two Prints - Self Portrait of An Artist Worrying About His Next Book and Young Man Shaving.

It's facinating that this 1959 painting was done two years after The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas books were published in 1957. Despite their success, Seuss painted a portrait of himself worrying about his next book. One year later, he overcame self-doubt and wrote Green Eggs and Ham, the third best selling book in the English language according to Random House Inc.

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Image Size: 16” x 12”
Limited Edition of 850 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs

Every Girl Should Have a Unicorn

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Abstract expressionism was the rage in art schools across America beginning in the 1950s. Dr. Seuss incorporates this genre in a number of artworks including I Dreamed I was a Doorman at the Hotel Del Coronado, among others. Here we find one of Seuss’s most vivid palettes as he conveys organic elements and abstraction along with his signature sense of humor - as you discover a girl riding a unicorn in the lower right-hand corner of the artwork.

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Image Size: 36” x 24”
Limited Edition of 375 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
155 Collaborator Proofs

Golden Girl

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Ted Geisel moved from New York to La Jolla in 1948. Along with his “La Jolla Bird Woman” series, Golden Girl exemplifies his interest in depicting the Californian spirit and attitude as captured in this sprightly and forward-leaning California Girl.

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Image Size: 36” x 24”
Limited Edition of 375 Arabic Numbers
99 Patron's Collection
55 Collaborator Proofs

Hotel Del Coronado

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The Economic Situation Clarified

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Tower of Babel

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Cat from the Wrong Side of the Tracks

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Pink Tufted Beast

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Venetian Cat Singing Oh Solo Meow

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Absolutely Dead

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A Man Who Has Made an Unwise Purchase

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An Alley Cat for a Very Long Alley

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Cat Carnival in West Venice

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Elephant Presenting a Flower to a Bird

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Indistinct Cat with Cigar

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Joseph Katz and His Coat of Many Colors SOLD OUT status, however, Thomas Lee Gallery has availability to this item either through our private collection or directly from the publisher.

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My Petunia Can Lick Your Geranium SOLD OUT status, however, Thomas Lee Gallery has availability to this item either through our private collection or directly from the publisher.

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