Hilaire Belloc By David Low

[poliphilo]

If I was rich I'd buy paintings. Since I'm not I buy old prints.

Yesterday I found this in a charity shop:

Contemporary photo-lithograph of David Low's 1936 caricature of the poet, essayist and historian Hilaire Belloc. Great artist, great subject. Low wasn't cruel in the way some modern cartoonists are- but he could get under his subjects's skin. He described the art of caricature as "all-in portraiture."



The original pencil drawing is in the V & A.

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[sovay]

Contemporary photo-lithograph of David Low's 1936 caricature of the poet, essayist and historian Hilaire Belloc.

That's wonderful!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Truculent, isolated, vulnerable, bewildered and exasperated by a place and time he no longer felt at home in- Low captures so much about the man.