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Quentin Blake drawing and watercolor The Birder

Artist: Blake, Quentin (British, born 1932)
Title: The Birder
Date: 1972
Medium: ink and watercolor
Dimensions: 7 x 7 inches
Edition: unique
Description: A gentleman Birder with an outstretched arm displays a bird for a female admirer
Signature: signed and dated along the lower margin Quentin Blake 1972
Provenance: Blake has always made his living as an illustrator, as well as teaching for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, where he was head of the Illustration department from 1978 to 1986. His first drawings were published in Punch while he was 16 and still at school. He continued to draw for Punch, The Spectator and other magazines over many years, while at the same time entering the world of children's books with A Drink of Water by John Yeoman in 1960.

in very good original condition

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