![]() ![]() The auction also included lesser-known elements of Blake’s work, including a group of pencil drawings from his 2018 London exhibition, Arrows of Love, depicting women avoiding or embracing Cupid’s arrow. ![]() The sales comprised works from the past 40 years of his career, including illustrations of characters that have captured the imaginations of generations of children, including works for The Enormous Crocodile, Dahl’s first book to be illustrated by Blake preliminary drawings for The Big Friendly Giant, one of his best-loved creations and children’s favourites by Dahl, including Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. They realised a total of £768,625. In July 2018, 30 illustrations from Blake’s personal collection were offered in a dedicated session in our Valuable Books and Manuscripts sale in London, while a further 148 were offered in an online-only auction, Quentin Blake: A Retrospective. The roughs are the rehearsals, in a sense, and then you have to go on and do it.’ When I’m doing the roughs, I’m thinking I am that person. ![]() ![]() ‘I’ve read the book like a book, then I read it looking for these moments. ‘When I start work on a book I do roughs of everything I want to draw in it so that I get a sense of how the book goes,’ he says, describing his creative process. ![]()
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