Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920 and was educated there at the Cambridge School of Art. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left his studies to serve in the Royal Engineers and in 1942 was captured by the Japanese at Singapore, then held by them for three and a half years. He is a hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist.
As well as his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books and his invention of St Trinians, his work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the world and appears in several major American and European collections. He moved to Paris in 1961 and then, in 1975, to a remote village in Haute-Provence. He died in a hospital near his home.
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| 1935 Singapore |
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| 1943 Japanese troops in Burma |
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| 1945 Sick Prisoner of Burma Railway |
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| 1947 The Enigma of the Japanese |
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| 1952 Tattooist |
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| 1953 Brick Lane |
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| 1953 Club Row, Spitalfields |
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| 1961 Eichmann in Court, Life Magazine |
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| 1965 Café Les Deux Magots, Paris |
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| 1965 Casablanca |
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| 1965 Club Régine, Paris |
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| 1965 Club St Germaine-des-Pres, Paris |
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| 1965 The Lido, Paris |
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| 1972 From "The suicide and reincarnation of an extremely small man" |
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| A Bigger Slash - Hommage to D. Hockney lithograph |
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| Christmas card |
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| Love Story lithograph |
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| Nigel Molesworth |
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| Nobody Wants Me lithograph |
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| St Trinians School |
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| The Flight lithograph |
Such amazing work. Cred for your art blog. I love it, and the variety of artists you post.
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