Kathleen Belko is a member of the Board of Trustees of Canterbury Shaker Village in Canterbury, NH. Their biggest fundraiser of the year concluded this past weekend. Kathleen donated for the auction a drawing of colored pencils that Tomie did in 1984.
Tomie and I would cringe when his artwork was placed in an auction. It often happened that the winning bid was considerably lower than the artwork’s estimated value. Tomie had stopped donating original artwork for auctions.
I told Kathleen I would bid the estimated value of the drawing. I hadn’t intended to bid above the estimated value, but when someone had out-bid me, my reaction was, “HEY!”
I did win the piece. I’m happy to now own non-children’s book artwork from that period of his creativity.
Caption - Mr. Satie teaches dance, in the style of the Russian ballet, to his neice and nephew, Rosalie and Conrad.
(I just realized Tomie misspelled niece.)
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