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Article 24
Britain's premier celebrity caricaturist Gary Smith sent me a shot of this fine Searle caricature. A 1970 rendering of Ginette Spanier, directrice of Paris fashion house BalmainReminiscent of Searle's...
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Spring update 2012
Chris Beetles Gallery, London has what promises to be a wide ranging exhibition of Searle's work. The catalogue is available to view on their website. It's an exciting publication for Searle fans...
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The Penguin Ronald Searle
Searle had a long-standing association with UK publishers Penguin Books. They commissioned him to illustrate a collection of paperback editions (some of which he had illustrated the hardback...
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Searle in Hawaii
In February 1965 Searle travelled to Hawaii on a reportage assignment for Holiday magazine.Ronald would trade in his first class ticket (an expense covered by the magazine) for two economy class...
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Catskills
Directly following the Hawaii assignment Searle moved on to the Catskills between 13th-17th March, 1965. Searle spent the time 'guying the clientele at Grossinger's hotel' as biographer Russell Davies...
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The remaining unsold pictures from Chris Beetles' 'Ronald Searle Remembered' exhibition are now on sale at the Leeds GalleryThe Huffington Post picked up on the exhibition
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S. J. Perelman
American humourist and author Sidney Joseph Perlman had a well known creative partnership with cartoonist Al Hirschfeld. Their Westward Ha! (1948) was an early example of an illustrated travelogue,...
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At home with the Searles
Royal Institute of British ArchitectsDuring the early 50s Searle and his first wife Kaye Webb moved into a modernist home designed by architect Denys Lasdun. In a style influenced by the early 'domino...
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The Alexander Technique
Frederick Matthias Alexander (20 January 1869 – 10 October 1955) was an Australian actor who developed the educational process that is today called the Alexander Technique – a form of education that is...
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Wine Speak
It's no secret that Ronald loved wine! In the Channel 4 news footage of him around his 90th birthday he delighted in admitting 'bubbles give me ideas" and I can attest from lunching with him that...
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Anatomies & Decapitations
After moving to Paris from London in 1961 Searle made a series of abstract expressionist works he titled 'Anatomies and Decapitations'. Of course it's impossible to speculate on the artist's state of...
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Digger's Story
David 'Digger' Barrett, Thai-Burma railway survivor, has passed away at the age of 90. His story is told in depth on Diggers Story and includes a section on Ronald Searle. Digger possessed two...
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Deadline!
Ronald was fastidious about annotating and cataloguing his work. Every original I've seen has been marked in pencil with subject or title, date and often the client. No other artist I've encountered...
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Animation
On YouTube I found a couple of the animated spots Searle made in collaboration with UK animator Ivor Wood. They met in the 60s while both working at La Comète studio in Paris which led to a fruitful...
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Falstaff!
Thanks to contributor Steph for sending me the scan of this wonderful drawing of Anthony Quayle as Falstaff in the 1951 Stratford season.See more of Searle's work in the theatre here.
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Update
I've updated the Film Titles & Posters section here.I also added artwork from the title sequences & promotional campaigns for the original St Trinians films over on Uli Meyer's 'Animated St....
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
'For Reader’s Digest, Searle illustrated an abridged version of Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris which was first published as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in the USA in 1966, and then republished by...
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Tourtour
Tourtour, the Provençal village where the Searles lived, is currently hosting an exhibition 'La Dolce Vita a Tourtour'. This poster is all I could find online-if anyone has more info please contact me...
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PoW Memorial
"A new memorial to PoWs in the Far East has just been unveiled in London, it features a drawing by Searle." Anita O'Brien of the London Cartoon Museum informs me.Read about it in the Camden New...
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Tribute
Cartoonist Nick Galifiniakis is a huge Searle fan and created this fantastic tribute to his friend Richard Thompson and all the great cartoonists who came before him. He explains the piece thus:Less...
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