Dr Seuss – SOLD OUT COLLECTIONS

Imagine owning an artwork by Dr Seuss that is no longer or rarely available for public viewing internationally!

Linton & Kay Galleries presents an exclusive opportunity to invest in Dr Seuss SOLD OUT artworks that are no longer available to order, their status being either ‘archived' or ‘rare’.

Linton & Kay Galleries is your Authorised Gallery in Western Australia.

An artwork by Dr Seuss is a keepsake guaranteed to bring joy for generations to come. Most of us know and love the artworks in his classic children’s books, from The Cat in the Hat and countless other all-time favourites. Yet, the Secret Art often shows a side of the artist that many have never seen and that that redefines Dr Seuss as an iconographic American artist.

Theodor Seuss Geisel’s artistic vision emerged as the golden thread that linked every facet of his varied career, and his artwork became the platform from which he delivered forty-four children’s books, more than 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds of advertisements, and countless editorials filled with wonderfully inventive animals, characters and humour.

This is a tremendous opportunity to build on your existing collection of Dr Seuss art.

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SOLD OUT AND ARCHIVED AUDREY GEISEL 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION - SET OF 4 SERIGRAPHS (EDITION A12/50)

50th Anniversary Green Eggs and Ham Audrey Geisel Edition A12/50

Hand pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag paper

Image and Paper Size: 138 x 66.5 cm

Adapted posthumously from the illustration for the 1960 book, Green Eggs and Ham.

Green Eggs and Ham was born out of a $50 wager between Dr. Seuss and his publisher, Bennett Cerf, who bet he couldn’t write an articulate, entertaining book using only fifty different words. The result was a 62-page volume composed of 49 monosyllabic words and a fiftieth three-syllable word “anywhere.” When Cerf heard Ted’s first reading of the book, he seemed dazed, shaking his head over the clear triumph of Green Eggs and Ham, which had begun as their private joke. Although he conceded the fiftydollar bet, Ted cheerily “complained” throughout his life that Cerf never paid up. A small price for what ultimately became a national treasure.

SOLD OUT AND ARCHIVED AUDREY GEISEL 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION - SET OF 4 SERIGRAPHS (EDITION A12/50)

50th Anniversary King of the Pond

Audrey Geisel Edition

A12/50

Hand pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag paper

Image and Paper Size: 139 x 66 cm

Adapted posthumously from the illustration for the 1958 book, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories.

The 1958 book, Yertle the Turtle, has a little-known and somewhat surprising origin. In a 1987 interview Ted said: “Yertle was Hitler or Mussolini. Originally, Yertle had a moustache, but I took it off.” During the run-up to WWII, FDR was battling the isolationist “America First” supporters who were seeking to keep us out of the war. Ted believed American isolationism was not an option and that Hitler needed to be stopped. He fought these battles with hundreds of WWII editorial cartoons during 1941 and ’42, and ultimately with his service in the Army as a captain in Frank Capra’s celebrated wartime documentary filmmaking unit.

SOLD OUT AND ARCHIVED AUDREY GEISEL 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION - SET OF 4 SERIGRAPHS (EDITION A12/50)

50th Anniversary

The Grinch at Mount Crumpit Audrey Geisel Edition A12/50

Hand pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag paper

Image and Paper Size: 138 x 65 cm

Adapted posthumously from the illustration for the 1957 book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Dr. Seuss felt people largely mistook

The Grinch for the ultimate villain saying, “Can't they understand that the Grinch in my story is the Hero of Christmas? Sure, he starts out as a villain, but it’s not how you start out that counts. It’s what you are at the finish.” This sentiment is what makes Dr. Seuss’s unorthodox creature so memorable—in the end he became his best self, he became the Hero of Christmas, and The Grinch himself carved the “roast beast.”

SOLD OUT AND ARCHIVED AUDREY GEISEL 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION - SET OF 4 SERIGRAPHS (EDITION A12/50)

50th Anniversary Ted's Cat Audrey Geisel Edition A12/50

Hand pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag paper

Authorized Estate Edition

Image and Paper Size: 140 x 66.5 cm

Adapted posthumously from the Cat in the Hat illustration created for a special 1970 project for Sears, Roebuck & Co.

In 2007, the 50th birthday of The Cat in the Hat was commemorated with the release of Ted’s Cat, a very personal, practically life-size, Dr. Seuss drawing, which occupied a spot in Ted’s studio for untold years. We consider it no less than Ted’s alter ego keeping an eye on the master while he creates.

SOLD OUT AND ARCHIVED AUDREY GEISEL ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION - INDIVIDUAL ARTWORKS (EDITION OF 295)

The Grinch at Mount Crumpit 67/295

Hand pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag paper

Image and Paper Size: 138 x 65 cm

Adapted posthumously from the illustration for the 1957 book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Dr. Seuss felt people largely mistook The Grinch for the ultimate villain saying, “Can't they understand that the Grinch in my story is the Hero of Christmas? Sure, he starts out as a villain, but it’s not how you start out that counts. It’s what you are at the finish.” This sentiment is what makes Dr. Seuss’s unorthodox creature so memorable—in the end he became his best self, he became the Hero of Christmas, and The Grinch himself carved the “roast beast.”

SOLD OUT AND ARCHIVED AUDREY GEISEL ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION - INDIVIDUAL ARTWORKS (EDITION OF 295)

Green Eggs and Ham

50th Anniversary

137/295

Hand pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag paper

Image and Paper Size: 138 x 66.5 cm

Adapted posthumously from the illustration for the 1960 book, Green Eggs and Ham.

Green Eggs and Ham was born out of a $50 wager between Dr. Seuss and his publisher, Bennett Cerf, who bet he couldn’t write an articulate, entertaining book using only fifty different words. The result was a 62page volume composed of 49 monosyllabic words and a fiftieth three-syllable word “anywhere.” When Cerf heard Ted’s first reading of the book, he seemed dazed, shaking his head over the clear triumph of Green Eggs and Ham, which had begun as their private joke. Although he conceded the fifty-dollar bet, Ted cheerily “complained” throughout his life that Cerf never paid up. A small price for what ultimately became a national treasure.

The Rather Odd Myopic Woman riding piggy-back on Helen’s many cats

Edition 780/850

STATUS: ARCHIVED

Serigraph on Coventry Rag paper in plain champagne-coloured frame

Image Size: 86 x 41.5 cm

Adapted posthumously from the original pencil and watercolour on illustration board.

Dr. Seuss was keenly aware of the many cultural and artistic movements which took shape throughout his career. In fact, his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts hosted one of this country’s first surrealist exhibitions, which no doubt had a lifelong impact on Seuss. Myopic Woman is unmistakably Seuss, but at the same time is a nod and a wink to cubists Picasso and Braque, as well as surrealists Miro, Magritte, and Dali.

Sold Out And Archived Secret Art Collection

Self-Portrait as a Young Man Shaving

Edition 316/850

STATUS: ARCHIVED

Serigraph on Archival canvas in black frame with bronze trim

Image Size: 41 x 31 cm

Adapted posthumously from the 1964 original ink and watercolor on board.

This is Dr. Seuss’s 1964 painting, Self-Portrait as a Young Man Shaving. Ted, who lived in a New York City apartment in the 1930s, portrays himself as a modern man who uses an electric shaver. Apparently, he also kept a “shaving file” filled with ideas and concepts that came to him while shaving. Photographs verify that his stance here at the sink mirrors his stance at the easel.

Sold Out And Archived Secret Art Collection

Oh, I'd love to go to the party but I'm absolutely dead

Edition CP24/55

STATUS: ARCHIVED

Serigraph on Arches black paper framed in plain champagne-coloured frame

Image Size: 33 x 40 cm

55 Collaborators’ Proofs

Adapted posthumously from the original pencil, ink, and watercolour on paper.

As one of the few men in La Jolla who worked from home, Dr. Seuss called himself a “bird watcher on the social scene,” always looking to create gentle spoofs of his chic female friends. The result was Ted’s series La Jolla Birdwomen, a spicy collection of eleven known paintings with lyrical titles, works that could have sprung only from the mind of a genial witness—for example, My Petunia can Lick Your Geranium, Martini Bird, and Gosh! Do I Look as Old as All That!

Sold Out And Archived Illustration Art Collection

A Plethora of Fish

Edition 186/850

STATUS: ARCHIVED

Mixed-Media Pigment Print on Archival Canvas

Image Size: 60 x 90 cm with additional canvas border

The original painting of Plethora of Fish was created for McElligott’s Pool. One of the few books to include fully-developed watercolour paintings for each and every page. McElligot’s Pool beautifully delivers Seuss’s message to “use your imagination.”