Live Auction 588620th Century British Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 80

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)

The Man in the Wilderness

Closed16 December 2009

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GBP 4,375

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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
The Man in the Wilderness
signed 'Mervyn Peake' (lower left)
ink, gouache and varnish
11 x 7¾ in. (28 x 19.7 cm.)
Executed in 1940.

Specialist note

The present work comes from Ride a Cock Horse - And other Nursery Rhymes a collection published in 1940 by Chatto & Windus. Mervyn Peake produced the present work to illustrate the poem, The Man in the Wilderness, included in the book.

We are very grateful to Sebastian Peake for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.