Chris Beetles Gallery

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Tom Stoppard

David Levine (1926-2009)

Price

£3,500

Signed

Signed and dated 95
Inscribed with title on reverse

Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

13 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches

Provenance

David Levine;
The Sir Christopher Ondaatje Collection of Literary Portraits

Illustrated

The New York Review of Books, 8 June 1995, 'Twice Around the Grounds' by Anne Barton (a review of Stoppard's Arcadia)

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1894-2020', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2020-January 2021, No 196

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard (born 1937) fled his birthplace of Zlin, in Czechoslovakia, in the wake of imminent Nazi occupation, and spent the Second World War in Singapore and India. He settled with his family in Britain in 1946, and took his stepfather’s surname. On leaving school, he became a journalist and then a playwright. In 1966, he attracted much attention with his absurdist tragicomedy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which was influenced by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. This was followed by many other inventive stage plays, including Travesties (1974), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977, with music by André Previn), The Real Thing (1982), Arcadia (1993) and The Invention of Love (1997). He has also written for television, radio and film, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998). His work often treats such themes as human rights and political freedom with dazzling wit and a strong sense of theatricality. He was knighted in 1997 and admitted to the Order of Merit in the year 2000.