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Sir Quentin Blake
(British, born 1932)
Moonlight Travellers No. 7 (unframed)

21 – 29 April 2025, 12:00 BST

Online, London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,500

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Sir Quentin Blake (British, born 1932)

Moonlight Travellers No. 7
signed and dated 'Quentin Blake 2017' (lower right)
pen and ink and watercolour on paper
56 x 77cm (22 1/16 x 30 5/16in).
(unframed)

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Provenance
Donated by the Artist and sold in aid of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Literature
Q. Blake, Moonlight Travellers, Thames & Hudson, London, 2019, unpaginated

Moonlight Travellers No. 7 © Quentin Blake, 2017

Please note that this lot is offered together with a copy of Q. Blake, On the Wing, The QB Papers, London, 2020

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