BOND, Michael; BANBERY, Fred (illus.)

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Original artwork for Paddington at the Seaside: "He Turned and Hurried Up the Beach..." Published in Paddington at the Seaside, in 1978, on pages 18-19. The drawing shows Paddington leaving the Brown party on the beach, and setting off, with a highly determined expression, to discover a Punch and Judy tent.The text reads, "Paddington jumped up and looked at the others as if he could hardly believe his ears. But Mr. and Mrs. Brown seemed much too busy with the picnic things to be bothered, so he turned and hurried up the beach towards the spot where the noise was coming from".In 1972 Michael Bond began writing a series of Paddington Bear books for younger readers, later known as the "Paddington Picture Books". These were coloured picture books requiring a different visual style from the novels, and the artist Fred Banbery (1919-1999) therefore took over the illustration of Paddington from Peggy Fortnum. Banbery had studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and published a significant quantity of work in periodicals including Atlantic, Colliers, Economist, New Yorker, Sunday Times, Times of India, and Wall Street Journal. Six volumes of the picture books were published by Collins in London, and Random House in New York between 1972 and 1978. They predate the stop motion animated television series.Provenance: The Estate of Fred Banbery; Chris Beetles, "Paddington Bear in St James's", December 2014; Private Collection.

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