ID 870774
Lot 235 | BLAKE, Quentin (b.1932)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
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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| Artist: | Quentin Saxby Blake (1932) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Artist: | Quentin Saxby Blake (1932) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Address of auction |
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