Original Painting Artworks Signed by Artist William Randell for the Dust Jacket of the Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe Novel - If Death Ever Slept - Accompanied by a First Edition in Jacket of the Finished Book
1958 · London
by STOUT, REX & WILLIAM RANDELL
London: Crime Club / Collins, 1958. This painting on artboard was created by William Randell for the First British Edition of this classic Nero Wolfe mystery novel written by Rex Stout. The painting measures approximately 6 1/4 inches wide by 8 inches tall matted to 10 1/4 by 12 inches. The book is very good in dust jacket. The painting depicts a beautiful woman surrounded around the neck by a large python snake. The colors of the painting are in yellow, red, gold, white, and black which in the finished dust jacket has the red and yellow changed to two different shades of green. (Inventory #: 15303J)