The son of a railwayman, Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge on 3 March 1920, and educated in the town at the Boys' Central School. He started work as a solicitor's clerk, and then joined the hire purchase department of the co-operative Society, studying in the evenings and later full-time at the Cambridge Daily News from the age of fifteen.
This resulted in his first cartoon for Lilliput, published in October 1941, and later developed into one of his most famous creations, through a series of books and their cinematic spin-offs. Remarkably, he survived the horrific experiences of the Changi Camp, Singapore as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and managed to produce a visual record of life in a prison camp.
On his return to England in 1945, he exhibited the surviving pictures at the Cambridge School of Art, and published Forty Drawings. The exhibition and volume together established his reputation as one of Britain's most powerful draughtsmen, and led to several opportunities to record the atmosphere of post-war Europe. He contributed to Punch and these drawings crystallised in, The Female Approach (1949). Throughout the fifties, he produced a large variety of illustrations, which together seemed present a guide to life in Britain in the 1950's.
Such was his success that his rejection of family and country in a move to Paris in 1961 came as a great surprise. However, it offered a fresh start, resulting in several solo shows, including a major exhibitions at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Berlin-Dahlem Museum and the Wilhelm-Busch-Museum, Hanover. He also reached a new audience with his contributions to film and television, most notably The Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965).
Note: Searle did too many works to post in one series, so I am posting them in two separate series: 1940-1960, and 1961-2007.
For a more detailed biography see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 13 (series 1) & parts 14-25 (series 2)
This is part 26 of a 26-part series on the works of Ronald Searle:
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| 1963 Wotan and Modern German: Holiday magazine Inda ink, pen and brush and wash on cardboard 48.5 x 35.1 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 1968 Zorro: 31 x 38 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 1977 The Thinker published for the Amnesty International's Prisoners of Conscience Year 47.9 x 39.3 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature and Drawing |
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| 1992 The New Yorker: July 27 |
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| 1993 The New Yorker: December 28 |
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| 1993 Laboratory Cats: A Few Test Sessions Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1994 Ghost Club: International Herald Tribune, October 1994 |
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| 1994 Happy New Year 1995 Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1995 Afrique: Pas de chance Le Monde 2 September 1995 |
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| 1995 Le pied du Roi: International Herald Tribune 24 June 1995 |
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| 1995 The problem is solved Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1995 St. Germain des Prés: International Herald Tribune January 1996 |
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| 1995 The Hatless Man |
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| 1995 Toadstools: International Herald Tribune October 1995 |
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| 1995 Barter all: International Herald Tribune pen and ink on card 35.4 x 55.3 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 1995 Winners' Podium India ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on cardboard 46 x 38 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 1996 1948: The arrival of the 2CV International Herald Tribune February 1996 Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1996 Agricultural Show, Paris: International Herald Tribune Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1996 CD cover: Les Frères Jacques - Chansons Paillardes |
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| 1996 Clovis celebrations International Herald Tribune July 1996 |
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| 1996 La sirène (The siren) Le Monde 15 October 1996 |
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| 1996 Operatic Honey International Herald Tribune October 1996 |
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| 1996 Palm Springs: Look magazine April 1996 |
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| 1996 Santa Claus with bodyguards 47.6 x 36.3 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
c1996 Germany:
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| 1996 Munich |
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| 1996 Munich |
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| 1996? Berlin |
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| Bird with Umbrella |
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| Untitled |
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| Hunting Boar |
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| Loreley Campingplatz |
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| Loreley Campingplatz detail |
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| Reeperbahn, Hamburg ---------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 1997 Zagat Restaurant Guide: Paris pen and ink on card 33.1 x 30.4 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing © The Ronalad Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1997 Untitled: 37.4 x 29 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing © The Ronalad Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1997 Grand Hotel: Thanksgiving Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing © The Ronalad Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1997 Breton onion-sellers in London International Herald Tribune September 1997 |
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| 1998 Candy is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash published by Methuen |
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| 1998 Cayenne Chicken Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing © The Ronalad Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 1998 Dating Lunches: International Herald Tribune January 1998 |
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| 1998 Traveller's Tales pen and ink on card 32.5 x 44.3 cm |
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| 1999 A French Affair: The Paris Beat, 1965–1998 |
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| 1999 Why Coughs was about money India ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on cardboard 38.6 x 30.9 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 2001 The Judgement of Salomon Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 2003 Labyrinth Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 2004 Women Drivers International Herald Tribune pen and ink on cardboard 33.5 x 50 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 2005 Blue Funnel Line Gastronomy International Herald Tribune 26 August 2005 Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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| 2005 Divided Paris: International Herald Tribune 11 February 2005 |
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| 2005 Globish speak International Herald Tribune 22 April 2005 |
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| 2005 Le Gavage (Force Feeding) Le Monde 7 December 2005 |
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| 2005 Wooing the over fifties: International Herald Tribune 32.4 x 45 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 2006 Cat O' Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer |
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| 2006 Cat O' Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer |
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| 2006 Politically Correct Banania: International Herald Tribune 17 February |
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| 2006 Vie bidon: Le Monde pen and ink on card 48.9 x 53.5 cm Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawing |
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| 2007 Global Alert: Le Monde March 2007 |
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| 2007 Au suivant! (Next!): Le Monde 10 February 2007 Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst © The Ronald Searle Cultural Trust |
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