Chris Beetles Gallery

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The Vicar of Cucuguan

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

Price

SOLD

Signed

Inscribed with title below mount

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

7 ½ x 6 inches

Illustrated

Alphonse Daudet, Letters from my Windmill, London: Penguin, 1978, page 119

Exhibited

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

‘Well are you coming in, or aren’t you?’ said a demon, with big horns pricking me with his fork ‘Me? I’m not coming in. I’m a fried of God.’ , ‘You’re a friend of God? Well what are you doing here then?’ , ‘I’ve come…I’ve come…Bear with me a moment…I can hardly stand up…I’ve come…I’ve come a long way…to ask you…humbly…if…if, by any chance,…you have anyone here…anyone here from Cucugan…’ , ‘Fires of God! Don’t you try to be funny with me! As if you didn’t know very well all Cucugan if here!’ page 118

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