[‘The Good Wife’?] original pencil and watercolor artwork probably intended for a New Yorker Magazine illustration

Robert Andrew PARKER (b.1927, artist). –  Sam NEILL, Rachel WARD & ? Jennifer CLARE.

[‘The Good Wife’?]  original pencil and watercolor artwork probably intended for a New Yorker Magazine illustration. [Undated but 1987?].

Pencil and watercolour on paper (12 5/8 x 9 1/2in; 320 x 242mm), signed in ink lower left corner, note on verso by the artist 'New Yorker'. Condition: excellent. Provenance: bought from the artist.

‘Robert Andrew Parker is an American artist known for both his paintings and prints of figures, landscapes, and animals. Parker has produced set designs for operas and films, as well as illustrations for over 40 children’s books during the course of his career. “Robert Andrew Parker is one of the most accurate and at the same time most unliteral of painters,” the poet Marianne Moore wrote of him. “He combines the mystical and the actual, working both in an abstract and a realistic way.’ (ArtNet).