£340.00
Sue Writes A Play (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 11" (280mm x 290mm)
Date: 1960
Code: BaranyPlay
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Steven Barany.
A charming painted illustration by Steven Barany for the cover of the Fleetway Princess Picture Library, featuring a schoolgirl themed cover. Originally published as the cover to Princess Picture Library #13, 1960. Professionally matted ready for framing.
- Artist BiographyStefan Barani
Stefan Barani has proved to be a particularly elusive artist. Best known for his cover artwork for the Sexton Blake Library, he seems to have appeared almost nowhere else, although the cover art from a 1962 issue of Princess Picture Library has been offered by the Illustration Art Gallery.
Barany's first Blake cover appeared on issue 482, Desmond Reid's Murder By Moonlight, in August 1961. Over the next few months he was the main Blake cover artist; a number of titles involved Barany combining images with other artists' work, including one image by Bruno Elettori, but primarily with Angel Badia Camps. His last cover was Lotus Leaves and Larceny, issue 521, April 1963.