POSY SIMMONDS - ORIGINAL GEMMA BOVERY SKETCH

Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. Posy Simmonds is a British national treasure: artist, writer, award-winning newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as graphic novels, and both also adapted into major feature films. Posy gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both "Tamara Drewe" and "Gemma Bovery" feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant. This beautiful, unique and unsettling artwork is an original sketch for Gemma Bovery, dated c. 1998. 265mm x 185mm (roughly) / ink and coloured pencil on paper.