Saturday Live

Live Auction, 19 October 2019

Session One

Sold for

ZAR 7 622
Lot 91
  • Dorothy Kay; Two Dogs
  • Dorothy Kay; Two Dogs
  • Dorothy Kay; Two Dogs
  • Dorothy Kay; Two Dogs
  • Dorothy Kay; Two Dogs


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 7 622

About this Item

Irish/South African 1886-1964
Two Dogs

signed; inscribed with 'Dec 22nd' and the caption on the reverse; inscribed with the publication's name and the caption on a label adhered to the reverse

mixed media on artist's board
36 by 52cm excluding frame

Notes

Inscription on the reverse of Two Dogs reads: No. 17 'The Outspan'. Illustration, Original.

Caption: "Between the greyhound and Bandit there soon developed a deep affection; strengthened in the months that followed by a common love of the chase, by mighty trials of speed and by adventurous larcenies."

In 1927, the editor of The Outspan asked Dorothy Kay to produce illustrations for the stories in the new weekly magazine, and for the next eighteen years, she regularly produced from two to four illustrations a week in charcoal, with white gouache accents, on artist’s illustration board. Kay was an absolute stickler for accuracy and posed and sketched family and friends in the inevitable action poses required by the adventure stories. She spent hours researching accurate detail, such as military insignia or the correct way to tie the knot in a noose, in the Public Library or at the zoo if a story included animals, and she amassed vast quantities of material that might conceivably be helpful, which she stuck into voluminous scrapbooks for future reference. In the 1940s, Kay gradually withdrew from producing illustrations and passed the torch to her daughters Joan and Patricia, who were subsequently to have their own work published in Outspan magazine on their mother’s recommendation to the editor.

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