Van Gogh and Gauguin Argue (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 13" x 16" (320mm x 400mm)
Date: 1976
Code: KeayVanGogh1LL
This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Jack Keay.
Story of Van Gogh. The smaller picture is of a young Van Gogh walking through the northern French countryside to visit Jules Breton.
The main picture shows Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) arguing in 1888.
This is the original artwork from Look and Learn no. 774, 13th November 1976.
- Artist BiographyJack "John" Edwin Keay (10 May 1907 - 1999; King's Norton, UK)
Artist who contributed a variety of illustrations and covers to Look and Learn. When he signed his work, it was usually as “Jack Keay”. Jack Keay was born in King's Norton, Worcestershire, on 10 May 1907. Little is known about Keay's career, but he was a popular book cover artist who worked for Pan, Panther, Hutchinson, Fontana and Four Square in the 1957-62 period.
Keay illustrated a number of books in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Change of Life by Muriel E. Landau (1971), Gunfighters of the Wild West by Eric Inglefield (1978), American Civil War by Philip Clark (1988), American War of Independence by Philip Clark (1988) and Viking Explorers by Rupert Matthews (1989). He died in Hounslow, London, in 1999, aged 92.
Jack Keay is not to be mistaken for John R. Keay (qv) who also contributed to Look and Learn.
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