Lot 174: SIS, PETER. B. 1949. Mixed media, five miniature New Year’s greetings, 19

SIS, PETER. B. 1949. Mixed media, five miniature New Year’s greetings, 1988-1992, each 41 x 51 mm, all but one signed and dated below the painting, matted and framed individually. Provenance: Morton Schindel. Czech-born MacArthur Fellow, Hans Christian Andersen Medalist and Caldecott Honor Winner Peter Sís is internationally renowned as a children’s book illustrator, painter, muralist and animator. Perhaps his best known work is the poster for the Oscar W inning Best Picture Amadeus (1984). He is also a gifted miniaturist who supported himself for a time after defecting to America by painting Easter eggs. He presented one to the Clintons in The White House in 1995. For several years he sent these exquisite tiny New Year’s greetings to award winning Weston Woods producer Morton Schindel. The two were planning to do an animated film of the picture book Rainbow Rhino (1987), but it was never made.