SEARLE, "IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE...", ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWING, 1956 (FRAMED AND GLAZED)

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

Ronald Searle
"If music be the food of love..."
ink drawing
11 x 12½in.

250 by 290mm., ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated lower right "Ronald Searle - 1956", inscribed with title and publishing details on verso, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance

Chris Beetles Limited, The British Art of Illustration 1800-1999, number 588

Exhibited

The British Art of Illustration 1800-1999, no.588

Catalogue Note

Published in Punch, 14 March 1956, page 314. Also published within Searle's Merry England (London, 1957), page 100.