The Painted Pebble People Fishing (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 15" x 19" (390mm x 485mm)
Date: 1966
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: McBrideRiverSpear

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

The people known as the Azillians lived in the same caves in northern Spain and Southern France (including the Pyrenees mountain range) as even more ancient peoples that had lived during the age of the Woolly Mammoth.

These people got their name from the habit of painting pebbles, possibly representing family members. Many of the pebbles have been split, it is thought to indicate the death of an individual.

They lived a lonely existence, hunting and fishing in the time of the great thaw after the last Ice Age. A stunning painting by Angus McBride with lots of detail in the animal skin clothing, trees etc.

From the series Mankind in the Making. Episode 6, The 'Painted Pebble People' originally published in Look and Learn #249 22 October 1968.

• 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.