Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
Candide walking with Dr Pangloss
A wonderful frontispiece illustration for Candide, showing Candide walking out of doors with Dr Pangloss. Voltaire’s classic satire on the youthful Candide, charting his gradual disillusionment with the Leibnizian optimism of his mentor Dr Pangloss, was issued in a deluxe edition by the Folio Society in 2011.
Alternative frontispiece for the 2011 edition of Candide by Voltaire.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
380 x 280mm
Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
Candide walking with Dr Pangloss
A wonderful frontispiece illustration for Candide, showing Candide walking out of doors with Dr Pangloss. Voltaire’s classic satire on the youthful Candide, charting his gradual disillusionment with the Leibnizian optimism of his mentor Dr Pangloss, was issued in a deluxe edition by the Folio Society in 2011.
Alternative frontispiece for the 2011 edition of Candide by Voltaire.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
380 x 280mm
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