£1,080 

Raymond Sheppard:
The Artist's Wife Iris Llistening to the Wireless
Mounted (ref: 335)
Pen and ink with wash on paper, 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (34.3 x 24 cm.)

Tags: Raymond Sheppard ink pen and ink leisure night scenes and sleep women

Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection

Litterature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.17

Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.

EH Gombrich  references Raymond Sheppard's 'How to Draw Birds', and includes a reproduction of one of his drawings,  in his celebrated treatise 'Art and Illusion', (1960).