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George Du Maurier AUCTION RECORDS
1834 Paris, France - 1896 London, England. Known for: Illustration, cartoon, writing.
A novelist and illustrator, he became best known for his work for the British magazine Punch, of which he was a staff member for over 30 years. He is the creator of such figures as Mrs. Cimabue Brown... Read full biography
A novelist and illustrator, he became best known for his work for the British magazine Punch, of which he was a staff member for over 30 years. He is the creator of such figures as Mrs. Cimabue Brown (a Philistine), Jellaby Postwaite (a poet), Maudle (based on Oscar Wilde), Prigsby (a sycophant),... Read full biography
A novelist and illustrator, he became best known for his work for the British magazine Punch, of which he was a staff member for over 30 years. He is the creator of such figures as Mrs. Cimabue Brown (a Philistine), Jellaby Postwaite (a poet), Maudle (based on Oscar Wilde), Prigsby (a sycophant), Grigsby (an ordinary man trying to emulate the aesthetic movement's fashions), and of parodies of the nouveaux riches and patrons of the arts, Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns and Sir Gorgius Midas. His first... Read full biography
A novelist and illustrator, he became best known for his work for the British magazine Punch, of which he was a staff member for over 30 years. He is the creator of such figures as Mrs. Cimabue Brown (a Philistine), Jellaby Postwaite (a poet), Maudle (based on Oscar Wilde), Prigsby (a sycophant), Grigsby (an ordinary man trying to emulate the aesthetic movement's fashions), and of parodies of the nouveaux riches and patrons of the arts, Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns and Sir Gorgius Midas. His first major work for Punch, submitted in 1866, was a series entitled A Legend of Camelot, satirizing the aethetic movement's leading figures Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, Gabriel Pater, and others, and their "Cult of Beauty."Born George Louis... Read full biography
A novelist and illustrator, he became best known for his work for the British magazine Punch, of which he was a staff member for over 30 years. He is the creator of such figures as Mrs. Cimabue Brown (a Philistine), Jellaby Postwaite (a poet), Maudle (based on Oscar Wilde), Prigsby (a sycophant), Grigsby (an ordinary man trying to emulate the aesthetic movement's fashions), and of parodies of the nouveaux riches and patrons of the arts, Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns and Sir Gorgius Midas. His first major work for Punch, submitted in 1866, was a series entitled A Legend of Camelot, satirizing the aethetic movement's leading figures Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, Gabriel Pater, and others, and their "Cult of Beauty."Born George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier in Paris, France, he was the grandson of a Frenchman who had fled to England , and t... Read full biography
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![Original drawings from "Tom Noddy's Christmas Nightmare," [London: 1892]](/photos3/2014/SNY20110617_68208/21.jpg?w=3840&q=100)
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeOriginal drawings from "Tom Noddy's Christmas Nightmare," [London: 1892]
George Du Maurier Auction: 06/17/2011Lot: 21Subscribe or get free alerts
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeFRUSTRATED SOCIAL AMBITION; COLLAPSE OF POSTLETHWAITE, MAUDLE AND MRS CIMABUE BROWN, PUBLISHED IN PUNCH, 21 MAY 1881
George Du Maurier Auction: 11/19/2008Lot: 143Subscribe or get free alerts
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