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Ronald SearleRonald Searle ink drawings 'Studies for Dynamene'1959
1959
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Ronald Searle, CBE HRWS (British, 1920 – 2011)
Studies for Dynamene
(Taken from a sketchbook of preliminary drawings for ‘A Phoenix Too Frequent’ a comedy by Christopher Fry, 1959)
Ink pen
6.3/4 x 4.3/4 in. (17.3 x 12.2 cm)
- Creator:Ronald Searle (1920 - 2011, British)
- Creation Year:1959
- Dimensions:Height: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)Width: 4.75 in (12.07 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:There has been some oxidisation which shows tape marks to reverse. Remounted by Chris Beetles. In a cream mount behind glass in a gilt frame.
- Gallery Location:Petworth, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU540315210992
Ronald Searle
Ronald Searle was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. Searle was born in Cambridge, England, where his father was a Post Office worker who repaired telephone lines. He started drawing at the age of five and left school (Central School – now Parkside School) at the age of 15. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) for two years. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. In January 1942, he was in the 287th Field Company, RE in Singapore. After a month of fighting in Malaya, he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle, when Singapore fell to the Japanese. He spent the rest of the war as prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. Searle contracted both beriberi and malaria during his incarceration, which included numerous beatings, and his weight dropped to less than 40 kilograms. He was liberated in late 1945 with the final defeat of the Japanese. After the war, he served as a courtroom artist at the Nuremberg trials and later the Adolf Eichmann trial (1961). He married the journalist Kaye Webb in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. In 1961, Searle moved to Paris, leaving his family; the marriage ended in divorce in 1967. Later he married Monica Koenig, a painter, theatre and jewellery designer. After 1975, Searle and his wife lived and worked in the mountains of Haute Provence. Searle's wife Monica died in July 2011 and he himself died on 30 December 2011, aged 91.
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