Lot 18
Edward Ardizzone
(British, 1900–1979)
Original Dust-Jacket Design for "Complete Poems for Children"
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
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Lot Description
Edward Ardizzone
(British, 1900–1979)
Original Dust-Jacket Design for "Complete Poems for Children"
watercolor and ink on paper
10 7/8 x 17 5/8 in. (27.6 x 44.8 cm)
Provenance
Bonham's London, Knightsbridge, June 15 2016, Lot 130
From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
Literature
James Reeves, Complete Poems for Children, Heinemann, London, 1973. Dust-jacket design
Exhibited
The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at Leeds University Library, Nostalgia and Progress. Illustration after the Second World War, November 2014-February 2015. Color reproduction in the exhibition catalogue
Note
Much of poet James Reeves's (1909-78) work for children was illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (1900-79). They developed a highly successful collaborative partnership, including for this dust-jacket design for Complete Poems, which is "generally regarded as [Reeves's] most important work" (ODNB).
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