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Searle, Ronald
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Searle, Ronald
- Two illustrations from How to be Topp, comprising:
- pen and ink drawing on paper
- 14½ x 10in.
a) "The peason-molesworth space ship threatened by wild mercurian maths masters lies disabled in the onion bed...", 125 by 195mm.; b) "Meanwhile in the master's common room. Sigismund arbuthnot the mad maths master musters his rhomboids.", 145 by 220mm.; both pen and ink drawings on one sheet, signed and dated lower right "Ronald Searle 1954", inscribed with captions, mounted, framed and glazed, some slight fading
Provenance
Chris Beetles Limited, "The British Art of Illustration - The Twentieth Century", 2001, no 74
Exhibited
The British Art of Illustration 2001-The Twentieth Century, no.74
Catalogue Note
Published within Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, How to be Topp (1954), p. 24