TWO POLITICAL CARTOONS OF ANTHONY EDEN

Lot 180
21.10.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 180 | TWO POLITICAL CARTOONS OF ANTHONY EDEN
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£ 1 000 – 1 500
TWO POLITICAL CARTOONS OF ANTHONY EDEN

MID 20TH-CENTURY, ONE BY EMILE MERCIER (1901-1981), THE OTHER BY SIR DAVID LOW (1891-1963)

One inscribed "AH!...THAT'LL BE HIS PLANE NOW!" and signed and dated 'EMILE MERCIER, Sydney Feb 15th 1949'; together with "SPECTACLE AT BLACKPOOL" signed 'LOW' and inscribed 'SO REFEENED! NOT AT ALL LIKE THE COARSE GOINGS-ON AT SCARBOROUGH', depicting Anthony Eden as Venus with Churchill, Macmillan and Butler as 'The Winds'

The Mercier: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20 cm.) framed

The Low: 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (36 x 54 cm.)

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