ID 870774
Lot 235 | BLAKE, Quentin (b.1932)
Valeur estimée
£ 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.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
| Artiste: | Quentin Saxby Blake (1932) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Aquarelle sur papier |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Artiste: | Quentin Saxby Blake (1932) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Aquarelle sur papier |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Royaume-Uni | |
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