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Lot 1878    Session 6 (9.30am Wednesday)    Miscellaneous

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $200

WALLY AND THE MAJOR, original b&w artwork by Carl Lyon, two drawings (each 165mm x 235mm) per sheet, sheet nos 229/77 and 91/78, together with matching reduced size printer's 'pulls' (proofs) and actual newspaper cutouts of the cartoons, all with matching numbers; also a book, An Introduction to Carl Lyon, co-ordinated by A.L.Burgess, 24pp featuring a brief history of the artist and examples of many of his portrait and landscape artworks as well as his outstanding repertoire of comic book strips and magazine covers. Extremely fine. (7)

Carl Lyon (1903-1982) born Forest Lodge, NSW, a trained artist with many notable works to his credit. As a young man he worked as a cane cutter. He later was a prolific illustrator of magazines, comic books and newspaper comics and also created his own comic book characters. He was a keen golfer and in his later years he regularly played at Bexley Golf Club where he was referred to as Sea Lion (C.Lyon) by his golfing buddies.

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