BLAKE, Quentin (b.1932)

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Lot 235 | BLAKE, Quentin (b.1932)
BLAKE, Quentin (b.1932)

Cockatoos

418 x 296mm. Framed (54.4x47x2.6cm). Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed. Provenance: Chris Beetles Gallery; pencil annotations on reverse. Published: Quentin Blake: Words and Pictures (Tate, 2013), p.160.



A preliminary drawing for the cover of Cockatoos (1992) by Quentin Blake. Cockatoos, written and illustrated by Quentin Blake, sees the hapless Professor Dupont searching for his escaped birds, in a book that employs joyful pictures to help its young readers learn to count and to identify different colours.





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