£345 

Raymond Sheppard:
Cristine imploring
Passe-partout (ref: 4627)
Pencil on paper

Tags: Raymond Sheppard pencil

Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection

Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

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 and also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.  His children, Michael and Christine, were subjects he drew frequently both informally and when posed specifically as models for commissioned illustrations.

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).