Artist: Neville Dear Medium: Mixed Media on Board Size: 12" x 9" (295mm x 220mm) Date: 1973 Code: DearVillon
This is the unique original Mixed Media art by Neville Dear.
Francois Villon, the vagabond King. François Villon is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behaviour and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. Here we see him celebrating with his cronies after robbing a church.
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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