Sold for $469

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Lot Description

GOREY, Edward (1925-2000). Beanbag Animal. Figbash. Ca 1980s?

Cloth doll, filled with rice, approximately 6-in. tall with approximately 19-in. wingspan. Figbash in black cloth with red stylized Asian design. With original tag: "Designed life-size And sewn by hand And filled with rice By Edward Gorey," SIGNED BY GOREY on the tag.

The original Figbash dolls were done in black fabric and created to accompany the lettered copies of The Raging Tide. They were often sold at Gorey's stage productions, and, according to Toledano, "were handmade by Gorey" (see p. 156).

Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett

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