West and Low
This is a true rarity and a beauty. A modernised version of "The Rake's Progress" by Rebecca West with drawings by David Low. It was published by Hutchinson in 1934. A wonderful depiction of London's society in the thirties with caricatures of eminent personalities of the period. See how many you can recognise. Tomorrow I'll post the rest of the pictures. Click on the pictures to enlarge.
posted by Oscar Grillo at 18.5.06
11 Comments:
A quiz!
What larks...Except I don't know many - perhaps any - of the answers.
Top: Can't recognise anyone.
2nd. down: Oswald Mosely in the brown plaid jacket.
Is that Ivor Novello at the piano? And is the big-headed little man above him Elias Canetti?
3rd: Dunno....Evelyn Waugh , the young red-haired man in a blue suit?
4th. Definitley HG Wells peaking round the door. At the desk the big man with the chin could be Ramsay MacDonald...But I don't think he was ever bald.
5th. Rebecca West- the young woman at left with the notepad.
Low was a great draughtsman, but in his day the British ruling class had too much control over cartoonists. Would a Fleet street editor of the 1930's published Steve Bell?...I wonder.
Grillo, gracias por los descubrimientos. De donde salio
este tipo?
Fijese en este blog http://troesmas.blogspot.com/
que seguro que va a encontrar algunas cosillas que le van a gustar.
Abrazo.
Chuki. Tu blog esta formidable. Busca por David Low in Google y vas a ver...Uno de los mas grandes caricaturistas que han existido. Era Neozelandes pero vivia en Inglaterra...Yo tengo tres originales de el en casa..Menchi Sabat lo admira muchisimo.
Limbó: I believe that the piano player is Noel Coward...Douglas Fairbanks is somewhere in the background. Tomorrow I'll post a gorgeous caricature he made of Alfred Hitchcock.
OK
Then the 'Oswald Mosley' must be Fairbanks (I hope he sued - but then the hideous Mosley was considered handsome at this time.)
The snooty red haired kid with a ciggy at left must be Randolph Churchill.
Is that Gertie Lawrence leaning over darling Noel at the piano?
I can't see Chirac anywhere....But I guess the catering wouldn't have suited him.
These are just dandy! Exquisite watercolour technique & strong posing. Funny, I was just leafing through Searle's 'RAKES' before I went to your blog.
David Low era íntimo de Valentino...
No, noo, porfavor, no se enoje troesma, en serio, le juro que no volveré a dar crédito a mis informantes!!!!!
Tibio, tibio...Low era amigo de montones de politicos internacionales y estrellas de cine.
.....Churchill, Sigmund Freud y George Bernard Shaw se encontraban entre sus admiradores.
The party scene:
Osbert Sitwell huggin' up to a guy in a ginger suit over on the far right.
And that's got to be Ernie Bevin refusing a cherry from the chick in the red hat.
erdhudtthe party:
the big green thing in the background...Is that a GAUDIER-BRESZKA?
Por favor, a la larga lista de sus ilustres admiradores agreguenme a mí.
Entre otras cosas, cómo controla la acuarela!!!!
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