$Bea Paul - Original \$

Bea Paul

Original "Mr. Playboy" Rabbit for the cover of the Playboy Twentieth Anniversary Cartoon Album, Chicago, 1974

Found at Christies, New York
PLAYBOY AT 50, Lot 220
17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003

Estimate: 800 - 1.200 USD
Price realised: 4.780 USD

Description

Bea Paul (20th Century)
Original "Mr. Playboy" Rabbit for the cover of the Playboy Twentieth Anniversary Cartoon Album, Chicago, 1974
Fabric and paper with plastic and metal accessories on shaped plasitc and board
9 in. (22.8 cm.)

A top price for Bea Paul

When the work Original "Mr. Playboy" Rabbit for the cover of the Playboy Twentieth Anniversary Cartoon Album, Chicago, 1974 by Bea Paul was auctioned at Christies in New York in December 2003, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 1,200.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at USD 4,780.00 (€ 3,794.55). This high result makes Original "Mr. Playboy" Rabbit for the cover of the Playboy Twentieth Anniversary Cartoon Album, Chicago, 1974 the most expensive artwork by Bea Paul that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis für Bea Paul

Als die Arbeit Original "Mr. Playboy" Rabbit for the cover of the Playboy Twentieth Anniversary Cartoon Album, Chicago, 1974 von Bea Paul im Dezember 2003 bei Christies in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 1.200,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 4.780,00 (€ 3.794,55) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Original "Mr. Playboy" Rabbit for the cover of the Playboy Twentieth Anniversary Cartoon Album, Chicago, 1974 zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Bea Paul, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

Bea Paul - Auction history

3.585 USD

Assemblage for the October 1956 cover of Playboy

Dec 2003

Christies, New York

4.780 USD

Assemblage for the August 1957 cover of Playboy

Dec 2003

Christies, New York

4.183 USD

Unknown

Dec 2003

Christies, New York

4.780 USD

$Bea Paul - Original \$

Original "Mr. Playboy" Rabbit for the cover of the Playboy Twentieth Anniversary Cartoon Album, Chicago, 1974

Dec 2003

Christies, New York

3.585 USD

Unknown

Dec 2003

Christies, New York

Other artists in this auction

$Alberto Vargas - Vargas Girl--\$

Alberto Vargas
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Vargas Girl--"Please don't peek until I finish dressing"
Price: 59.750 USD
Found at Christies
19 auction results

Alberto Vargas

Arequipa, Peru 1896 - 1982 Los Angeles

19 auction results

$Leroy Neiman - Femlin (from Playboy\'s Party Jokes), 1967$

Leroy Neiman
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Femlin (from Playboy's Party Jokes), 1967
Price: 8.963 USD
Found at Christies
103 auction results

LeRoy Neiman

Saint Paul, Minnesota 1921 - 2012 New York City

103 auction results

$Howard Mueller - Two illustrations to Ian Fleming\'s Man with the Golden Gun$

Howard Mueller
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Two illustrations to Ian Fleming's Man with the Golden Gun
Price: 7.170 USD
Found at Christies
3 auction results

Howard Mueller

20th Century

3 auction results

$Robert Weaver - Illustration to Ian Fleming\'s On Her Majesty\'s Secret Service, Part 2$

Robert Weaver
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Illustration to Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Part 2
Price: 2.629 USD
Found at Christies
2 auction results

Robert Weaver

American, 1913 - 1991

2 auction results

$John Dempsey - No, he hasn\'t yet, mama...pretty soon, I guess, mama...yes, I\'ll call you right after he does, mama...$

John Dempsey
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: No, he hasn't yet, mama...pretty soon, I guess, mama...yes, I'll call you right after he does, mama...
Price: 1.912 USD
Found at Christies
6 auction results

John Dempsey

20th Century

6 auction results

$Eldon Dedini - Of course there\'s someone else!$

Eldon Dedini
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Of course there's someone else!
Price: 5.378 USD
Found at Christies
3 auction results

Eldon Dedini

1921 King City/USA - 2006 Carmel/USA

3 auction results

Jack Davis
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Yes?
Price: 5.378 USD
Found at Christies
4 auction results

Jack Davis

American, 1924 - 2016

4 auction results

Andre De Dienes
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Marilyn Monroe, 1960
Price: 11.353 USD
Found at Christies
30 auction results

André de Dienes

Transylvania, Romania 1913 - 1985 Los Angeles

30 auction results

Gahan Wilson
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Looks like the end of civilization as they know it
Price: 2.629 USD
Found at Christies
6 auction results

Gahan Wilson

American, 1930 - 2019

6 auction results

Jack Cole
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Your Wife? And all the while I thought it was TV
Price: 5.975 USD
Found at Christies
7 auction results

Jack Cole

American, 1914 - 1958

7 auction results

Erich Sokol
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: It must be fate -- my wife and your husband breaking their legs on the same day
Price: 7.170 USD
Found at Christies
10 auction results

Erich Sokol

Austrian, 1933 - 2003

10 auction results

Shel Silverstein
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Tell me, Mr. Silverstein -- is it true what they say about American women?
Price: 3.585 USD
Found at Christies
5 auction results

Shel Silverstein

1932 - 1999

5 auction results

$Herb Davidson - Untitled (Illustration to Jack Kerouac\'s Before the Road)$

Herb Davidson
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Untitled (Illustration to Jack Kerouac's Before the Road)
Price: 3.107 USD
Found at Christies
4 auction results

Herb Davidson

American, born 1930

4 auction results

Helmut Newton
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: American Playboy, Beverly Hills, 1989
Price: 16.730 USD
Found at Christies
1,282 auction results

Helmut Newton

Berlin 1920 - 2004 Los Angeles

1,282 auction results

Herb Ritts
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Elle Macpherson, 1994
Price: 11.353 USD
Found at Christies
462 auction results

Herb Ritts

Los Angeles 1952 - 2002 Los Angeles

462 auction results

Roger Brown
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: The Human Fly, 1989
Price: 20.315 USD
Found at Christies
58 auction results

Roger Brown

1941 - 1997

58 auction results

Richard Hunt
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Tri-Motion, 1995
Price: 4.780 USD
Found at Christies
24 auction results

Richard Hunt

American, 1935 - 2023

24 auction results

$Ed Paschke - Playboy\'s 40th Anniversary Logo, 1993$

Ed Paschke
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Playboy's 40th Anniversary Logo, 1993
Price: 13.145 USD
Found at Christies
88 auction results

Ed Paschke

1939 - 2004

88 auction results

Patrick Nagel
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Untitled (A Tribute), 1984
Price: 4.780 USD
Found at Christies
13 auction results

Patrick Nagel

American, 1945 - 1984

13 auction results

Brett Weston
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Nude in Pool, Carmel Valley, California, 1978
Price: 5.019 USD
Found at Christies
351 auction results

Brett Weston

1911 - 1993

351 auction results

Annie Leibovitz
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Jerry Hall, 1985
Price: 11.950 USD
Found at Christies
189 auction results

Annie Leibovitz

born 1949

189 auction results

Lee Friedlander
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Madonna, 1979-1980
Price: 7.170 USD
Found at Christies
422 auction results

Lee Friedlander

born 1934

422 auction results

George Hurrell
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Joan Collins, 1983
Price: 1.195 USD
Found at Christies
37 auction results

George Hurrell

American, 1904 - 1992

37 auction results

John Derek
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Bo Derek, 1980
Price: 11.950 USD
Found at Christies
3 auction results

John Derek

American, 1926 - 1998

3 auction results

$Francis Wilford Smith - I call it \'fore-play\'$

Francis Wilford Smith
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: I call it 'fore-play'
Price: 1.195 USD
Found at Christies
3 auction results

Francis Wilford Smith

born 1927

3 auction results

Bill Hinz
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Untitled (Abstract Horns)
Price: 2.390 USD
Found at Christies
9 auction results

Bill Hinz

20th Century

9 auction results

David Wedgebury
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Heads and Tails, circa early 1970s
Price: 2.510 USD
Found at Christies
5 auction results

David Wedgebury

20th Century

5 auction results

Harvey Dinnerstein
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: The Fight, Part I: The Dead are Dying of Thirst (Mohammed Ali), 1975
Price: 4.780 USD
Found at Christies
3 auction results

Harvey Dinnerstein

American, born 1928

3 auction results

Tom Wesselmann
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Study for the Great American Nude, #87, 1966
Price: 107.550 USD
Found at Christies
2,084 auction results

Tom Wesselmann

Cincinnati, Ohio 1931 - 2004 New York

2,084 auction results

Tom Kelley
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Marilyn Monroe, 1953
Price: 17.925 USD
Found at Christies
12 auction results

Tom Kelley

1914 - 1984

12 auction results

$Humen Tan - Three images from Playboy\'s Patio Terrace$

Humen Tan
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Three images from Playboy's Patio Terrace
Price: 2.390 USD
Found at Christies
5 auction results

Humen Tan

20th Century

5 auction results

$Jim Beaman - Whistler\'s Mother (from The Playboy Art Gallery), 1964$

Jim Beaman
Auction: 17. Dec - 17. Dec 2003
Title: Whistler's Mother (from The Playboy Art Gallery), 1964
Price: 1.912 USD
Found at Christies
3 auction results

Jim Beaman

20th Century

3 auction results