"Donald McGill Postcard Artwork"
2006-03-14 until 2006-04-08
Chris Beetles
London, , UK United Kingdom

From the 14th of March, 2006 the Chris Beetles Gallery will host the world's largest collection of previously unseen Donald McGill postcard artwork. As the maestro of double entendre he has both received high acclaim and caused much scandal. Prosecuted in 1957 for obscenity, McGill's images no longer shock the enlightened audience but continue to amuse and delight. With a unique and instantly recognisable style, Donald McGill was singled out by George Orwell in 1941 as "the most prolific and by far the best of contemporary postcard artists... the most perfect in the tradition".

McGill's artistic skill and bawdy humour are now made interesting by his unconscious and historical social commentary; his appeal is as fresh now as it was then in our present age of leisure - behaving badly from Blackpool to Ibiza.

Who better to own this vast collection than the rumbustious national treasure, Michael Winner. He is a distinguished collector of illustrative art and an expert on Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac and William Heath Robinson. His collection of McGill postcard artwork comprises nearly 200 works, which are now all available to buy for the first time.

IMAGE
'I FEEL A LETHARGY CREEPING OVER ME.' 'I DON'T WONDER.
THIS DARN BEACH IS CRAWLING ALIVE WITH 'EM!'
SIGNED
INSCRIBED WITH TITLE ON REVERSE
WATERCOLOUR WITH BODYCOLOUR
5 X 9 1/2 INCHES
PROVENANCE: THE MICHAEL WINNER COLLECTION
Artist: DONALD MCGILL

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