Giles [Carl Ronald Giles O. B. E.] Cover artwork for the Giles Annual, 1955

Giles [Carl Ronald Giles O. B. E.]

Cover artwork for the ninth series Giles Annual, Daily Express, 1954-55, depicting a French cafe scene featuring the Giles family, with Grandma pouring wine and Mother glowering at Father, ink, watercolour and bodycolour on 'Whatman board rough surface', tape residue and resultant staining along edges, image 34 x 72 cm, board 39 x 75.5 cm.

***One of the nation’s best-loved cartoons, the Giles Family series both reflected and reacted to post-war British life. From 1946 to 1995, the cartoons were published in a bestselling Christmas Annual, with a new cover design in full colour. As opposed to the relentless nature of the daily cartoon, these were a labour of love which Giles worked on for months.

Gifted by the artist to his friend Harold Keeble, who worked as an assistant editor of The Daily Express, and editor of the Sunday Express from 1952 - 54. Subsequently gifted to the vendor.