Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
The Pig
Alternative Version for The Pig from Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts, a collection of poems about a menagerie of unusual animals. ‘He simply couldn’t puzzle out / What LIFE was really all about’: this wonderfully clever Pig is pondering the eternal question when he comes to the shocking realisation that he has been bred for human consumption. Determined to avoid his fate, he turns upon his owner, Farmer Bland, the very next morning, eating him up from head to toe.
Alternative Version for the 1984 edition of Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
180 x 220mm
Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
The Pig
Alternative Version for The Pig from Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts, a collection of poems about a menagerie of unusual animals. ‘He simply couldn’t puzzle out / What LIFE was really all about’: this wonderfully clever Pig is pondering the eternal question when he comes to the shocking realisation that he has been bred for human consumption. Determined to avoid his fate, he turns upon his owner, Farmer Bland, the very next morning, eating him up from head to toe.
Alternative Version for the 1984 edition of Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
180 x 220mm
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