BLAKE, Quentin (b. 1932)

BLAKE, Quentin (b. 1932)

Jack o’ the Green.

2015

Watercolour, signed and dated in ink.

Annotated on verso in pencil ‘Jack o’ the Green’, ‘X/634’ and ‘QB0383’ in two hands.

345 x 495mm. Framed (435 x 585mm).



Exhibited: Chris Beetles Gallery, ‘A Quentin Blake Summer. With Wind, Dogs, Kites, and Extra Ducks’, July 2015, no 83.



The leafy Jack O\' the Green is well known in Hastings – a town with which Quentin Blake has had a long association – where the annual festival in his honour is held on May Day.