Gerald Scarfe
"Alec Mccowen - Kipling"
Found at
Sothebys,
London
Scarfe at Sotheby’s: Sixty Years of Being Rude, Lot 107
6. Dec - 6. Dec 2019
Scarfe at Sotheby’s: Sixty Years of Being Rude, Lot 107
6. Dec - 6. Dec 2019
Estimate: 2.000 - 3.000 GBP
Price realised: not sold
Price realised: not sold
Description
GERALD SCARFE
"Alec McCowen - Kipling"
680 by 400mm. (on 835 by 590mm. sheet), pen and ink drawing with corrections in gouache, captioned "Alec McCowen | Kipling", signed lower right, unmounted sheet
Published within The Sunday Times, 3 June 1984, p. 41.
Scarfe's drawing of Alec McCowen relates to Brian Clark's play, Kipling, then playing at the Mermaid Theatre. A review of the play by John Peter in The Sunday Times notes "Rudyard Kipling is the Enoch Powell of literature. There he stands, utterly English, paternal and bellicose, stubbornly logical, mulishly independent, fractious, dignified, proudly solitary and moral to the marrow... Alec McCowen's impersonation has the intensity of an old phot
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"Alec McCowen - Kipling"
680 by 400mm. (on 835 by 590mm. sheet), pen and ink drawing with corrections in gouache, captioned "Alec McCowen | Kipling", signed lower right, unmounted sheet
Published within The Sunday Times, 3 June 1984, p. 41.
Scarfe's drawing of Alec McCowen relates to Brian Clark's play, Kipling, then playing at the Mermaid Theatre. A review of the play by John Peter in The Sunday Times notes "Rudyard Kipling is the Enoch Powell of literature. There he stands, utterly English, paternal and bellicose, stubbornly logical, mulishly independent, fractious, dignified, proudly solitary and moral to the marrow... Alec McCowen's impersonation has the intensity of an old phot
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