"Quentin Blake: Fifty Years of Illustration"
2003-12-17 until 2004-03-28
Somerset House
London, , UK United Kingdom

The Gilbert Collection celebrates Christmas and the New Year with the work of an artist who is an expert at celebration. Spanning his 50-year career, this show will cover Blake's early drawings for Punch and The Spectator, his highly successful collaboration with Roald Dahl and other writers, and his own recent picture books. The exhibition is prepared in collaboration with the Quentin Blake Gallery of Illustration.

Rough designs, preliminary drawings and finished originals as well as the final publications will appeal to adults and children alike, providing a unique insight into the working methods of one of Britain's best-loved illustrators.

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Cover for Zagazoo
by Quentin Blake

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