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This Listing is for:
Ellis Family Archive - Clifford Ellis 1907-1985: From a Series of six pencil studies of women reading
Original Drawing V
5. A pencil sketch of a woman Reading on the floor
circa 1940s
Provenance from the folio of sketches of Clifford Ellis.
5 more similar drawings in separate listings
Proof of provenance Supplied with purchase
Dimensions:
Approx. 12ins. x 9ins. 30.5 cm x 22.8 cm
Condition:
Good Vintage Condition
Mild yellowing in places due to age
Clifford Ellis studied illustration at the Regent Street Polytechnic, an institution that specialised in ’practical trade classes’, from 1924-27. He went on to design book covers (notably for Collins’ ‘New Naturalist’ series) and posters for London Transport, the General Post Office, Shell-Mex, the Empire Marketing Board and J. Lyons & Co., along with his wife, Rosemary Ellis, whom he married in 1931 while he was teaching at the Polytechnic.
To read more about Clifford Ellis:
https://whatkittysawtoday.com/2017/10/21/clifford-ellis-graphic-artist-camofleur-abstractionist-teacher/
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