Aladdin's Mother Meets the King (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 16" x 17" (400mm x 430mm)
Date: 1969
Signature: Signed by artist panel 3 lower right
Code: McBrideAladdin09

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Angus McBride.

Incredibly scarce, this is possibly the only remaining complete board from Angus McBride's stunningly painted adaptation of Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp.

Aladdin is angry that his mother had not managed to see the King the previous day. He wanted to offer him jewels and ask for the hand of the Princess in marriage. His nervous mother complies with her pushy son but is so nervous she spills the jewels onto the palace floor in front of the crafty King and his Vizier.

The complete page 12 from Once Upon A Time issue 6 originally 1969 and reprinted 31st March 1973.

• Artist Biography
  Angus McBride (1931 - 2007; UK & South Africa)
  Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical and fantasy illustrators, and contributed to numerous books, magazines and articles, including the classic Look & Learn, JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and more than 70 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents, but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after National Service, emigrated to South Africa where he lived for several years, before relocating to Ireland before his sad demise in 2007.