A Hilary Knight portrait of Joan Crawford as 'Letty Lynton' Pencil and ink on illustration board, matted. Unused illustration for Laura Jacobs, 'Glamour, By Adrian,' Vanity Fair, June 2000. Titled and signed and dated in ink, 'Hilary Knight 2000.' One of the most famous of Joan Crawford's pre-Code Hollywood pictures, Letty Lynton (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1932) tells the story of a New York socialite who gets away with murder. Her victim is Nils Asther, who had appeared opposite Garbo in Wild Orchids. Here Mr. Knight depicts Miss Crawford in what became known as the 'Letty Lynton dress,' Adrian's white organdy gown with large ruffled sleeves that were puffed at the shoulders. Women were so taken with it that when Macy's copied the dress in 1932, they reportedly sold 500,000 replicas all over the country. Overall: 25 x 19 in.; Image size: 19 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. Lot to be sold without reserve. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ Bonhams or one of its affiliated companies within the Bonhams Group owns the lot in whole or in part or has an economic interest equivalent to an ownership interest in the lot. ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing