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Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge and studied at Cambridge
School of Art from 1936-1939. He served in the Army during WW2 and was
captured by the Japanese. During his time as a POW he helped build the
Burma railway. After the war his career as a cartoonist flourished and
he lived in the same house as fellow artists Robert Colquhoun and John
Minton. He contributed his work to a number of magazines including Punch
and between 1941 and 1953 he pubished his immensely popular series on
the terrible schoolgirls of St. Trinian's. His work has illustrated
many books on a variety of subjects and continues to be one of Britain's
best-loved cartoonists and satirists. His work has been widely exhibited
across the globe and a number of public collections hold his work, including
the British Museum and Victora and Albert Museum.
References: Horne, Alan. The Dictionary of British
Book Illustrators: 387-388.
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News Stand near Les Halles
pen and ink on paper
c. 1950
signed
23.8 x 18.4 cm. (image)
artist's titled label to reverse of frame
Slight browning at margins.
An original illustration for Searle's Paris Sketchbook. London: Saturn Press, 1950. Illustrated p. 75.
This early and fully finished pen and ink drawing is an original illustration for Searle's Paris Sketchbook which is considered to contain some of the artist's best work. 'It is a personal journal by a husband and wife,who, loving Paris, dedicated a holiday to recording some of the people and places they most wanted to remember' - dust-jacket blurb.)
£2,200 (artist's original frame)
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Place Dauphine by the Palais de Justice
pen and ink on paper
c. 1950
signed, titled dated May 6
24 x 34.5 cm. (image)
Browning at margins.
An original illustration for Searle's Paris Sketchbook. London: Saturn Press, 1950. Illustrated p. 37.
This early and fully finished pen and ink drawing is an original illustration for Searle's Paris sketchbook which is considered to contain some of the artist's best work. 'It is a personal journal by a husband and wife,who, loving Paris, dedicated a holiday to recording some of the people and places they most wanted to remember' - dust-jacket blurb.)
'On the Ile de la Cité stands the Palais de Justice, and the Préfecture de Police...turns its formidable back on the shy charms of the seventeenth-century Place Dauphine...
Only in the early morning, empty except for a pair of silent dogs, did it seem exactly as it should.' (quoted p. 37.)
£2,500 (within mount)
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Evasion
Lithograph on paper
1998
signed, titled dated and numbered from edition of 200
48.2 x 63.5 cm.
£300
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Man with moustache
pen and ink on card
signed and dated '2.3.46'
11.3 x 9.5 cm.
SOLD
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