Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

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Glen Baxter | "You'd better have a damned good excuse...", original illustration, signed and dated by the artist

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Glen Baxter


"You'd better have a damned good excuse for being out of uniform this time, Wainwright!" barked the Sergeant


271 x 247 mm (frame 622 x 469 mm), pen, ink, and crayon, signed by the artist in pencil on the mount, mounted, frame, and glazed


PROVENANCE:

Chris Beetles Gallery


EXHIBITED:

Chris Beetles Gallery, "Glen Baxter, Blizzards of Tweed", October 1999, item 54

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