Elephant Presenting a Flower to a Bird

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NOTE: The Collaborator Proof edition has been reserved for important public exhibitions, major gallery retrospectives, and select private collections.

Serigraph on Archival Canvas
Authorized Estate Edition

Image Size: 21” x 47” with additional canvas border

Limited Edition of 375 Arabic Numbers
99 Patrons’ Collection
55 Collaborators’ Proofs

Adapted posthumously from the 1925 original ink and watercolor on illustration board.

Elephant Presenting Flower to a Bird (1925) is one of Dr. Seuss’s earliest paintings and a true precursor to his Deco Period—1930-49. His use of saturated black backgrounds combined with signature smoke rings, labyrinths, and deco architectural elements allowed him to create a new visual language that accentuated the muted pallets so characteristic of this period.