Chris Beetles Gallery

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The Pope's Mule

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

Price

£1,450

Signed

Inscribed with title below mount

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

7 ¾ x 6 inches

Illustrated

Alphonse Daudet, Letters from my Windmill, London: Penguin, 1978, page 86

Exhibited

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

‘Good Heavens! What a fine mule you’ve got, Holy Father! … Do let me look at her a little… Oh, Your Holiness, what a mule, what a mule!... Even the Emperor of Germany hasn’t her equal.’ And he stroked her gently and spoke soft words to her as to a young girl. ‘Come my jewel, my treasure, my precious pearl…’ and the good Pope, deeply moved, said to himself: ‘What a nice boy!...To be so kind to my mule!’, page 85/86

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