RAYMOND ALLEN JACKSON KNOWN AS 'JAK'. 'THE RANK AFFAIR I', w...

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RAYMOND ALLEN JACKSON KNOWN AS 'JAK'. 'THE RANK AFFAIR I', with Lew, cigar in mouth musing the suggested idea of a ‘film’ based on the machinations of the ‘Rank affair’ captioned on the mount ‘‘What a script Lew – more horrific than jaws, more wives than Henry the Eight, and intrigue than the Quiller Memorandum….’’, pen and ink with blue body colour on paper.
44 x 56 cms        

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.