LEWITT-HIM
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POSTERS, ILLUSTRATIONS, FESTIVAL CLOCK |
BLUE PETER (LH) | |
A DAY WITH THE DUKE (GH) | |
COVER FOR FORTUNE (LH) | |
SCHWEPPSHIRE (LH GH) | |
GRAPHIS ON LEWITT-HIM 1949 | |
GRAPHIS ON LEWITT-HIM 1953 | |
WHERE TO DINE IN LONDON AND PARIS 1952 |
THE ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE | |
ORIGINAL SCREEN |
Jan Lewitt was a self-taught artist ."He has been a worker in building, soap manufacturing, in a distillery, a bricklayer, farm worker, compositor, architect's draftsman, and art director." Viguers, Illustrators of Children's Books 1958. He met George Him in Warsaw in 1933 and began a collaborative partnership that only ended in 1954 after which Lewitt concentrated on painting and stage design.
Their
illustrative style was a combination of European graphic values and
Anglo-Saxon whimsy, always with a strong emphasis on drawing and
narrative subtleties. |