The inimitable Ronald Searle (1920-2011) - every mark on each illustration is vibrant, exciting and utterly brilliant! Looking at the expressions on the faces, the shapes of the bodies and the sharp irony of the various situations makes me laugh every time. I've scanned the artist's biography from the back cover of the book (previous post) but here's also an extensive entry from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle The pictures in this book are arranged in themes - pets and their owners, from the first post, sale slogans, dancers, artists, musicians and some surreal ones like the last two below...
Oh Nurse! Zita Johann
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with George Brent in *Luxury Liner* (1933)
with George Brent and Alice White in *Luxury Liner* (1933)
with George Brent, Frank Morgan and Vivienne Osborne ...
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