$3,500
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Auction: April 6, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
Signed bottom left, pen, black ink and watercolor on Arches.
Executed circa 1984.
15 x 11 7/8 in. (38.1 x 30.2cm)
Provenance: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C.
note:
Quentin Blake is a British cartoonist and illustrator. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Roald Dahl, many of whose classic children's books he famously illustrated. The Roly Poly Bird is featured in several of Dahl's stories, including "The Enormous Crocodile" and "The Twits." The present example references a line from Dahl's short story "The Toad and the Snail" from the book of poems "Dirty Beasts," in which a young boy encounters the Roly Poly Bird on one of his many adventures. Blake illustrated the second edition of "Dirty Beasts," which was published in 1984.