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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.

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

Edition CP24/55

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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!

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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.”