Lot 60
JOHN BURNINGHAM (B. 1936)
'CANNONBALL SIMP': SIMP WAS WHAT MOST PEOPLE WOULD CALL AN UGLY LITTLE DOG
Auction: 28 February 2018 from 11:00 GMT
£5,000
Description
Mixed media on paper, with sketch verso of black dogs, framed, signed on label verso
Dimensions
24cm x 38cm (9.5in x 15in)
Footnote
Note: The original illustration for 'Cannonball Simp', first published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.
Simp was inspired by Burningham's wife's dog Lulu, a black Belgian barge dog who she found abandoned in a stairwell in Israel and brought back by boat to Marseilles. "She did get very fat and round in old age" comments John "which I suppose is where the suggestion of a cannonball came".