Lot 331: FOREMAN, MICHAEL.

A collection of 19 ink, watercolour and wash drawings, including illustrations for The Birthday Unicorn

Condition Note:

These drawings comprise a snowscene with skaters and sledges, sheet size 492 by 776mm.; two boys on a bike, sheet size 318 by 509mm.; a cycling accident with one boy on road and another at bottom of small cliff, sheet size, 385 by 450mm.; man with two-barrel gun coming to door of log cabin, sheet size 368 by 510mm.; two boys being chased by a small dog, sheet size 379 by 511mm.; Knight on foot examining signpost to Carlisle, 383 by 512mm.; and the base of a tree, 375 by 511mm.; all laid-down to card, some occasional light soiling; [together with] a series of 12 ink and watercolour drawings relating to The Birthday Unicorn, average sheet size 515 by 645mm., some light soiling, minor water damage to occasional illustrations

In the early 1970s Michael Foreman produced numerous illustrations for the BBC television series, Jackanory. The illustrations offered here, occasionally noted with programme and camera shot details, are presumably for this purpose. The series of 12 watercolour drawings mostly including a boy (Alexander Banyana) on a bicycle, a unicorn and a dodo would appear to relate to The Birthday Unicorn, by Janice Elliott, first published in 1970. The illustrations offered here were for the BBC television Jackanory series. The 1970 volume includes only black and white illustrations by Foreman.