Scarfe (Gerald) ‘A handbagging’

Scarfe (Gerald)

‘A handbagging’ [Margaret Thatcher and Kenneth Baker], ink and wash, signed lower left, image 58 x 83cm, framed & glazed, [2000]

***Commissioned for Lord Baker's three-part BBC series on his life in politics.

[Scarfe] ‘I was not a fan of Mrs Thatcher, but she was undoubtedly a strong woman. In the case of caricature, she had a character that comes through - I could always draw her as aggressive or cutting or biting, like an axe or scissors or something that was really, really attacking.’ (Gerald Scarfe interviewed by Helen Bushby, BBC News Online, 9 April 2013)