ARTWORK

Boxing film set design

98. Thomas, Leslie Training Gym 1940s- Film set design by Leslie Thomas 1940s

Atmospheric design board inscribed “Int-fight gym - DWAN ’72’” showing crowd in a training gym, boxer and his coach. Drawing below of camera angle shot. Pencil sketch on board signed Leslie Thomas, 1940s/50s. Thomas is known to have drawn for Mark Robson, who directed ‘Champion’ with Kirk Douglas and ‘The harder they fall’ with Bogart.

[14370]

£250

Korean War

99. Jefferson, B Korean War refugees Korea 1950 watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1950 on the image, titled on the original backboard “Korean war refugees 1950”. The war between North and South Korea started in the second half of 1950 and ended in 1953. This water-colour presumably shows civilians leaving North Korea at the start.

The Australian War Memorial web-site has a photograph depicting a scene similar in atmosphere, captioned “Korea, c. 1950. A stream of Korean refugees (whether from North or South is unknown) trudges along a dusty road away from the war. The refugees, mainly women and children, are carrying their possessions on their backs or in bundles on their heads.”

See Australian War Memorial website at https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C294093 for related photographic study

[14022] £350

100. Dali, Salvador La Conquête de L’irrationnel Paris 1935

8vo, Stiff pictorial wrappers. Colour frontis [with some foxing to verso] and thirty-five black & white plates, splits to head of upper joint and tail of lower, text paper a bit tanned to edges, one of 1200 copies in French.

[14017] £180

Apartheid

101. Artists against Apartheid London, Prince of Wales Theatre Mar 22/23 1965

‘Artists against Apartheid’ theatre programme of 22 pages, in aid of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Defence & Aid Fund. Performers at the theatre included Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Eartha Kitt, Alfie Bass, Manfred Mann Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The programme also listed ‘Playwrights against apartheid public declaration June 25, 1963’. This was a British movement of protest against the policies practised by the South African government The programme also listed ‘Playwrights against apartheid public declaration June 25, 1963’. These included Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Jonathan Miller, Spike Milligan, Harold Pinte, Jean Paul Sartre, Tennessee Williams.