Illustrator E.H. Shepard is best known for creating the image of Winnie the Pooh and his acquaintances – and some significant pencil marks by the great man have been discovered in Derbyshire, as Vivienne reports.
IT IS RARE to have original works by illustrator artists appear in auction and they are always well contested when they do appear. Illustrators often have a big advantage when their original works are sold at auction. As their work has often had such a huge amount of promotion in the form of mass-produced books, their pictures become so well known to us all that we feel like we know them personally, as here, with the familiarity of Pooh and his associates – who isn’t nostalgic about this bear?…