£950 

Raymond Sheppard:
Michael with Toy Car, c.1952
Mounted (ref: 4437)

Pen ink and watercolour

Tags: Raymond Sheppard ink watercolour children leisure portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Provenance: the artists daughter

Literature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, cat.20

Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.155.

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).