RAYMOND ALLEN JACKSON KNOWN AS ‘JAK’. ‘BBC TV BLACKED OUT FO...

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RAYMOND ALLEN JACKSON KNOWN AS ‘JAK’. ‘BBC TV BLACKED OUT FOR XMAS’,
Lew with cigar in mouth reading a newspaper in a Gentleman’s club with pencil caption and printing notes underneath, ‘‘I suppose this is the break Bruce Forsyth’s been waiting for, What?’’. Also signed ‘To Lord Grade with best wishes’.(from JAK)
pen and ink with blue body colour on paper.
53 X 60cms 

PROVENANCE: The Lord Lew Grade Collection
OFFERED FOR SALE WITHOUT RESERVE

NOTE: Raymond Allen Jackson (1927-1997), known as ‘Jak’

Raymond Jackson was a prolific cartoonist producing a great body of material for the London Evening Standard and the Mail between the 1960s and the 1990s. His well-observed work which was both humorous and often savagely biting made him one of Britain’s best-loved cartoonists. Though he was a political cartoonist, he attempted to be impartial, and approached his subject from a social angle, by employing widely recognised stereotypes as often as specific caricatures. Sir Lew Grade was frequently a target for his satire over the years and the following lots are the originals acquired by Lew  or given to him by Raymond, which hung in his home and office.