Every bit of furniture had to be covered

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Every bit of furniture had to be covered

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

Price

£750

Signed

Inscribed with title below mount

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

5 ½ x 6 inches

Illustrated

Noel Streatfeild, The Growing Summer, London: Collins, 1966, page 39

Exhibited

'The Human Touch: The Art of Edward Ardizzone', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2025

'Closing the house upstairs was quite a job. All the beds had to be stripped and the sheets and the pillow cases put in the laundry basket. Then every bit of furniture had to be covered in dust sheets, and small things wrapped in newspaper and all cupboards and drawers locked', page 39

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