Details
SUZIE ZUZEK (AMERICAN, 1920-2011)
Sea-Lilly
watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper
15 x 22 in. (38.1 × 55.9 cm.) (unframed)
Executed in 1969.
Provenance
Created for Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc., Key West, Florida, 1969.
Acquired by Lilly Pulitzer, Inc., Palm Beach, Florida, sold Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc., 1985 to private owners.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016.
Literature
Susan Brown and Caroline Rennolds Milbank, Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Artist Behind an Iconic American Fashion Brand, 1962–1985, New York, 2020, p. 27 (illustrated).
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Lot Essay

In 1955, Zuzek moved from New York City to Southern Florida and immediately took to island life. Sea-Lilly depicts a bustling Palm Beach reef, filled with overlapping corals, seaweeds, and diverse species of fish. This crisp relief of the coral was most likely achieved using rubber cement as a frisket or resist on the lighter areas.

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