NY Marriott Marquis Hotel Grand Opening 1985

Year1985

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with GlassBlack Wood Frame W/ White Mat & Glass - Height 33 

Purchased fromOther 1985 

Story / Additional InfoThe drawing depicts the Mayor at the time Edward Koch, Paul Anka who was the Grand Opening night entertainment, Jerry Orbach the Actor who served as a Master of Ceremony; John C. Portman Jr., the Architect of the Hotel, Bill Marriott of Marriott International who owned and managed the hotel, and two additional Marriott Executives. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID169751

Al Hirschfeld - United States

Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Al Hirshfeld American Artist: b. 1903-2003. Al Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri. In the early 1920s he traveled in Europe, studied the European movements, and came away with a love of simple, fluid composition. After he returned to New York he decided to devote his creative life to the graphic arts and for more than fifty years successfully translated the purity of his form to the etching and lithographic processes. Al Hirshfield's caricatures of the celebrated capture perfectly the essence of the subject with added touches of humor and warmth. Deceptively simple, they are the works of an extraordinarily skilled craftsman. As a prominent observer and social chronicler of the entertainment world, in the 1930s Hirschfeld began contributing his drawings to the Sunday edition of The New York Times. Al Hirshfeld's work appears in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Listings wanted.