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Portrait of Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in a Streetcar Named Desire. Original oil painting.

By: MERVYN PEAKE

Price: £6,500.00

Publisher: c. 1951.:

Seller ID: 34664

Oil on board. c. 1951. signed. 11½ x 7¾ inches. Framed and glazed. Peake first met Lawrence Olivier in Germany in 1945 and would use this friendly meeting as an introduction in 1950 when he attempted to persuade Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh to produce and act in his play The Wit to Woo. According to Olivier, Leigh liked the play but his approaches came to nothing and they eventually gave upon it in 1952. During this period Vivien Leigh starred in Elia Kazan's film of Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire. This haunting portrayal won Leigh an Oscar for the role. Althou...
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Bird. Original drawing.

By: MERVYN PEAKE

Price: £2,250.00

Publisher: [1956]:

Seller ID: 38614

Black chalk on paper, mounted on board. 8½ x 4¾ inches. Unsigned. Reproduced on p. 109 of the Drawings of Mervyn Peake. Davis-Poynter, 1974. From the collection of the artist’s niece Judith Bland [née Peake].
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The Hermit. Original drawing.

By: MERVYN PEAKE

Price: £2,100.00

Publisher: [1946]:

Seller ID: 38615

Pen and ink on paper. 13 x 9 inches. Signed “Peake”. The sheet has been torn in half horizontally and professionally repaired and cleaned. The repair is expert but noticeable. A variant drawing for Maurice Collis A Quest for Sita, 1946. p. 44. From the collection of the artist’s daughter Clare.
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The Bathers. Original drawing.

By: MERVYN PEAKE

Price: £1,950.00

Publisher: January, 1936.:

Seller ID: 38616

Pen and ink on paper. 9½ x 7 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. From the collection of the artist’s daughter Clare.
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House in the Country [probably Burpham, Sussex].

By: MERVYN PEAKE

Price: £1,750.00

Publisher: 1930.:

Seller ID: 39878

Original painting, oil on board, 12 x 13¾ inches. Peake’s parents lived in Burpham at this time. This is an early work painted when he was just 19 and studying at the Royal Academy Schools. From the collection of the artist’s niece Judith Bland [née Peake].
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Houseboat [probably on the Sussex coast].

By: MERVYN PEAKE

Price: £1,200.00

Publisher: 1930s.:

Seller ID: 39879

Watercolour on paper, 4¾ x 6½ inches. Inscribed “for Judy”; additionally signed “Peake.” From the collection of the artist’s niece Judith Bland [née Peake].
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Farm in the Rain [probably at or near Burpham, Sussex].

By: MERVYN PEAKE

Price: £1,200.00

Publisher: April, 1931.:

Seller ID: 39882

Watercolour on paper, 5 x 8 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. From the collection of the artist’s niece Judith Bland [née Peake].
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Publications 1 - 31 [lacking 24 and 28]

By: MERVYN PEAKE SOCIETY

Price: £195.00

Publisher: The Mervyn Peake Society, 1975 - 1999.:

Seller ID: 32204

29 volumes in wrappers. An almost complete run of this important journal responsible for first printing a number of illustrations and texts.
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