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GERALD SCARFE

"Alec McCowen - Kipling"

680 by 400mm. (on 835 by 590mm. sheet), pen and ink drawing with corrections in gouache, captioned "Alec McCowen | Kipling", signed lower right, unmounted sheet

Published within The Sunday Times, 3 June 1984, p. 41.

Scarfe's drawing of Alec McCowen relates to Brian Clark's play, Kipling, then playing at the Mermaid Theatre. A review of the play by John Peter in The Sunday Times notes "Rudyard Kipling is the Enoch Powell of literature. There he stands, utterly English, paternal and bellicose, stubbornly logical, mulishly independent, fractious, dignified, proudly solitary and moral to the marrow... Alec McCowen's impersonation has the intensity of an old photograph stepping out of its frame: Kipling confronts us, bullet-headed and beetle-browed, chin jutting out, legs astride like an old-fashioned clubman, the pebble glasses glinting with impatience and provocation. It is an exhilarating performance..."

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