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JA N E P IN KN E Y Lesley Jane Pinkney (née Magee) (born 1948) Jane Pinkney’s finely rendered depictions reveal a variety of anthropomorphic narratives steeped in nostalgia and charm. Her work can be firmly situated within the tradition of illustrative art, and her name comfortably coupled with those of Beatrix Potter, Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham.
J A NE PINK N EY
153 THE PHOTOGRAPHER Signed Watercolour 2 1⁄2 x 2 1⁄4 inches
For a biography of Jane Pinkney, please refer to The Illustrators, 2011, pages 338-340.
Nos 155-157 are all illustrated: in Margaret Greaves, Mouse Mischief, London: Marilyn Malin Books/Andre Deutsch, 1989, [unpaginated] and were all exhibited in ‘Mouse Mischief ’, Nunnington Hall, September 2012 155 ‘COME IN AT ONCE, YOU NAUGHTY CHILDREN!’ CALLED THEIR MOTHER. SHE WAS VERY ANGRY Signed Watercolour 6 1⁄2 x 6 inches
156 SO LIBBY HELPED TO CLEAR UP, AND MAKE THE HOUSE PRETTY FOR THE WEDDING (below) Signed Watercolour 7 1⁄2 x 6 1⁄4 inches
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117 157 THEN A CAR SHOT ROUND THE CORNER. ‘LOOK OUT, PIPKIN! RUN!’ SHOUTED AMANDA. PIPKIN JUMPED OUT OF THE WAY, BUT THEY WERE ALL FRIGHTENED Signed Watercolour 5 x 6 1⁄4 inches
154 TIMOTHY SQUEAK Signed Inscribed with title on reverse Watercolour, 5 1⁄4 x 8 inches Illustrated: Margaret Greaves, The Mice of Nibbling Village, London: Marilyn Malin Books/Andre Deutsch, 1986, [unpaginated]; London: National Trust Books, 2011, new edition, pages 16-17
158 THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTING HOUSE, COUNTING OUT HIS MONEY Signed Watercolour, 3 1⁄2 x 3 inches Drawn for Mouse Rhymes: To Bed, To Bed; Munch Munch; Come and Play, an unpublished Nursery Rhyme Box Set of Three Books commissioned by Macmillan, circa 1995