Lot 1160: CRAFT, KINUKO Y. b.1940.- "My Shameless Surrender at 10 Rue Jules Rathiers,"

"My Shameless Surrender at 10 Rue Jules Rathiers," egg tempera on board, 600 x 395 mm, signed "Craft/Fragonard" lower left. Framed. Illustration for a Moreau wine advertising campaign, 1986. A parody of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing . Born in Japan and a graduate of of the Kanazawa College of Art (Kanazawa Bijutsu K?gei Daigaku), Kinuko Y. Craft has become one of the most versatile commercial artists in America since her arrival in 1964. She has done much advertising and editorial work as well as designed greeting cards, calendars, posters and many book jackets. She is internationally celebrated for her exquisite children's books. After receiving several gold and silver medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York, she became a member of their Hall of Fame in 2008. ""Kinuko Craft is a Renaissance woman," wrote Ray Bradbury. "By this I mean not that she paints like the Renaissance painters, but that she is an artist for all seasons, for all kinds of subjects, and in all kinds of styles." She also has a wry sense of humor as demonstrated in the Moreau wine advertising campaign.