Happy 110th Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
Theodore Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 and would now be 110 years old.
We would like to join with the many celebrating his life and talent on his 110th birthday.
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss. Jean, Steve Lorie 612-338-4333 800-336-9924
Also FYI here is the last release from the Estate. It has been a hugely popular work. The Sea Going Dilemma Fish
We are pleased to announce the release of Sea-Going Dilemma Fish. An amazing work Sea-Going Dilemma Fish perfectly shows one’s feelings while in the middle of a debate, a problem, a dilemma.
The next to the last release of both the Marine Muggs and the Unorthodox Taxidermy Collections, it is the tallest work of his collections and with the Sea-Going Dilemma Fish’s crossed eyes it is a grand personification of us in the middle of a dilemma.
This sculpture has taken a roundabout path to publication. On rare occasions throughout his lifetime, Ted Geisel sporadically gifted artwork to friends or close colleagues. Along with Kangaroo Bird, which appeared on Antiques Road Show in 2005, The Sea-Going Dilemma Fish is one of only two original Dr. Seuss taxidermy sculptures to re-emerge in private collection 80+ years after their creation in the 1930s.
In 2011, the daughter of a veterinarian from Portland, Maine, walked into a San Francisco art gallery and was struck by the similarity between an artwork her father had passed down to her, and the cover image from the newly published Dr. Seuss’s Secrets of the Deep fine art volume. While she and her father often speculated that the work in their family’s possession might be an original Dr. Seuss sculpture, it wasn’t until seeing this book that her suspicions were confirmed.
Somehow, Dr. Seuss’s original Sea-Going Dilemma Fish had made its way from his New York City apartment to the wall of a hunting camp near Moosehead Lake, Maine. In the late 1950s, the camp owner decided to give it away and gifted it to a paying guest-the lucky veterinarian from Portland-who proudly hung it first over the family’s fireplace and later in his clinic.
The Sea-Going Dilemma Fish resides today in his daughter’s Florida home. As collectors are aware, Dr. Seuss’s Taxidermy Sculptures often incorporate real animal parts. In this instance, the original Sea-Going Dilemma Fish is crowned by an impressive rack of Caribou antlers. Until the original artwork was recently discovered, the only visual evidence of the Sea-Going Dilemma Fish included black and white and sepia-toned photographs, as well as magazine accounts housed within the Dr. Seuss archives at the University of California, San Diego.
In 2010, a small number of Sea-Going Dilemma Fish sculptures were created for major collections. At that time, coloration of these artworks was based on the early reference photographs and reputed to be along the lines of several sculptures at the Dr. Seuss Estate, including the Two-Horned Drouberhannis and Mulberry Street Unicorn sculptures. An image of this coloration was also included in the Secrets of the Deep and Cat Behind the Hat monographs.
With the discovery of the original taxidermy sculpture, the true color qualities of this artwork-slate blue head, carrot-colored button nose, mottled greenish-blue snout, amber glass eyes, and black pupils-were revealed to closely resemble that of the Blue-Green Abelard. The remainder of the Sea-Going Dilemma Fish edition, commencing in 2014, has been adapted to replicate the original coloration.
Sea-Going Dilemma Fish is the tallest of the Unorthodox Taxidermy Works measuring 36″ X 21″ X 14″. It is being released in a regular edition of 850 at an opening price of $3,295.
Please call, email or use our secure server at https://www.enetcart.com/gallery-2.html to add Sea-Going Dilemma Fish to your collection.
For more information on Sea-Going Dilemma Fish please call 800-336-9924 or 612-338-4333.