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Then, all his resistance overcome, he would let himself fall back into a large armchair, and, stretching himself voluptuously and with half-closed eyes, he would sip his sin slowly, savouring it sensuously, and saying softly to himself with a feeling of exquisite remorse: 'Ah! I shall go to hell for this ...'

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)

Price
£2,250
Signed
Inscribed 'Father Gaucher's Elixir' below mount
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
7 ½ x 6 ¼ inches
Illustrated
Alphonse Daudet, Letters from my Windmill, London: Penguin Books, 1978, page 202, 'Father Gaucher's Elixir'
Literature
Brian Alderson, Edward Ardizzone: A Bibliographic Commentary, Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2003, page 195
Exhibited
'The Human Touch: The Art of Edward Ardizzone', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2025

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