Rescue of Otto Skorzeny (Original)

Rescue of Otto Skorzeny art by Neville Dear

Rescue of Otto Skorzeny (Original)


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Artist: Neville Dear
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 16" x 10" (406mm x 254mm)
Date: 1968
Code: DearNazi

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.

The Nazi commando raid under Captain Otto Skorzeny's command took place high in the Abruzzi mountains, at the Campo Imperatore Hotel, where the deposed Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, was being kept under close arrest.

This is the original artwork for the illustration on pages 6-7 of Look and Learn no. 344 (17 August 1968).
  • Artist Biography
    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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