Saturday, June 2, 2018

Ronald Searle: Ballroom Lament

An original cartoon by Ronald Searle sheds light on who enjoys the ball and who doesn't. The quotation is actually not Searle's. It comes from Dancing (1895) by Mrs. Lilly Grove.


"Those girls who are not good waltzers have little enjoyment..."
Ronald Searle

Original art


"Those girls who are not good waltzers have little enjoyment..."
Ronald Searle,

Framed original art


"Those girls who are not good waltzers have little enjoyment..."
Ronald Searle

Original art


Detail


Dancing Detail


Disapproving Detail


Ronald Searle's signature 
"Those girls who are not good waltzers have little enjoyment..."
Verso with Ronald Searle's Studio Two stamp


Ronald Searle
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Dancing (1895), Mrs. Lilly Grove, page 452

Note:  Where might this drawing have been published? Could it have been here?


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Do you know what this blog needs? It needs scans or photographs of published and unpublished original art by Ronald Searle.

For more on the artist, see Perpetua, the Ronald Searle Tribute blog.


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