Maira Kalman
People who live in Glass Houses, 2004-05
inkjet print, edition 8/36
11 x 15.75 inches

LOT 123
Value: $1400

This limited edition print is donated by the Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, and comes with custom framing to match the print, with archival matting and ultraviolet-filtering glass.

Maira Kalman’s world is populated by eccentric but familiar characters. The palette is bold and deeply saturated, owing a debt to Matisse, but also coloring books. The color is so jewel-like and joyful that for many years Kalman has preserved the cloths she uses to wipe her brushes, and sometimes includes them in her installations. Her work is a narrative journal of her life and all its absurdities.

People who live in Glass Houses, was one of several editioned prints made from illustrations created for the book The Elements of Style (illustrated) by William Strunk and E.B. White.

Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than thirty years without formal training. She has written and illustrated twelve children’s books including Ooh-la-la- Max in Love, What Pete Ate, and Swami on Rye. She often illustrates for The New Yorker magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the NewYorkistan cover in 2001. She contributes to a monthly on-line column entitled Principles of Uncertainty for The New York Times.