Quentin Blake has illustrated among the most recognisible e book characters over his 70 12 months profession and 300+ titles. He has now returned to a dozen of them and redrawn them for a particular on-line public sale at Bonhams to assist the brand new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
A Dozen New Drawings of Previous Buddies runs March 4 – 14 and options his attribute line and exquisite watercolours of familar faces reminiscent of Matilda, Mister Magnolia, the BFG, and Mrs Armitage and Breakspear. These new drawings will likely be on show at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London, March 4 – 8.
“Quentin attracts his characters with such energetic pen and brush strokes, they appear like they’ve simply leapt into life,” mentioned Lindsey Glen, Director of the Centre. “However a few of his iconic characters had been born many years in the past, and since then Quentin has created many different issues. In the present day he’s working in his studio on large-scale works on paper which can be fairly completely different from his e book illustrations.
“As now we have been engaged on plans for displaying works from Quentin’s archive on the future Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, now we have been taking a look at authentic illustrations for books he illustrated within the Sixties, 70s, 80s and 90s. It appeared the proper second for Quentin to revisit these much-loved books which have grow to be fashionable classics.”
