Artist: Neville Dear Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 10" x 18" (265mm x 450mm) Date: 1967 Code: DearNSnakePitLL
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
Depiction of Gerald Durrell who collected zoo specimens. This picture shows Durrell being lowered into a snake pit in Africa to try and collect a Gobon Viper. Stick in hand he set about trying to catch a snake which he eventually did and being hauled up, he was thankful to being still alive.
Neville Dear; UK A prolific artist for Look and Learn, illustrating a wide variety of historical subjects and various series including 'Disasters That Shook the World' (1963), 'By the Rivers of Babylon' (1964), 'They Made Headlines' (1964), 'Epic Stories of the Iron Road' (1965) and others. In 1949, Dear and two other students from the Royal College of Art were commissioned to decorate the walls of the children's section of the Chelsea Public Library.
In the 1950s he began producing illustrations for William Collins, including work for Collins' Magazine, Collins Boys' Annual and books, including Showell Styles' 'Tiger Patrol' series.
As well as his magazine illustrations for Look and Learn, Ranger, Argosy, Picture Post and others, Dear also worked for Oxford University Press, Wheaton, Hodder & Stoughton, Corgi, and Eyre Methuen. With others he illustrated The Hamlyn Bible for Children (1974) and he was a regular illustrator for Reader's Digest's condensed books.
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