Self-Portrait of the Artist Worrying About His Next Book

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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: 16” x 12” with additional canvas border

Limited Edition of 495 Arabic Numbers
99 Patrons’ Collection
155 Collaborators’ Proofs

Adapted posthumously from the 1959 original pen and ink, whiteout, and oil pastel on board.

When an artist does a self-portrait, inevitably it’s the back-story that is a secret window into the creative mind behind a renowned body of work. Self-Portrait of the Artist Worrying about His Next Book (1959) is a great piece of whimsy that portrays Dr. Seuss’s quandary of what to do after the huge success of The Cat in the Hat and How The Grinch Stole Christmas! He shouldn’t have worried—Green Eggs and Ham came next.