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Drawings: G0608
Title
Christopher Robin Milne
Technique
Other work on paper
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: c.22cm
Width: c.19cm
Width: c.19cm
Other materials
Pencil on wove paper
Provenance
Purchased 1988, for £3.000
Exhibition history
1988 London, Sotheby's (in association with Save the Children Fund), "Childhood Exhibition" (156/1)
2000-01 London, Dulwich Picture Gallery "The Man Who Drew Pooh: the Art of EH Shepard"
This drawing depicts a boy, sitting on a sofa. The child is most likely to be the artist's own son Graham Shepard. In the book 'Winnie-the-Pooh, Exploring a Classic' by Annemarie Bilclough and Emma Laws, on page 32, there is a similar drawing of a boy in the same position, seated at a cafe table with a lady sitting opposite him. This drawing dates to c.1911 and is in the Shepard Trust. Given the similarity between the two it can be assumed that the Garrick's drawing dates to the same year.
C. R. Milne - the original Christopher Robin of the Pooh stories - was a member of the Garrick Club from 1976 to 1984. The Garrick Club enjoys income from the royalties on the works of his father, A. A. Milne, who became a member of the Garrick Club in 1919.
E H Shepard, who worked for “Punch”, gained fame as an illustrator of children’s books, notably A. A. Milne’s “Winnie-The-Pooh" and Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows”.
C. R. Milne - the original Christopher Robin of the Pooh stories - was a member of the Garrick Club from 1976 to 1984. The Garrick Club enjoys income from the royalties on the works of his father, A. A. Milne, who became a member of the Garrick Club in 1919.
E H Shepard, who worked for “Punch”, gained fame as an illustrator of children’s books, notably A. A. Milne’s “Winnie-The-Pooh" and Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows”.
