Scarfe at Sotheby’s: Sixty Years of Being Rude

Scarfe at Sotheby’s: Sixty Years of Being Rude

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 28. SCARFE | [THE 2010s] | "Upset at Clacton on Sea" [David Cameron and Nigel Farage].

SCARFE | [THE 2010s] | "Upset at Clacton on Sea" [David Cameron and Nigel Farage]

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December 6, 02:28 PM GMT

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GERALD SCARFE

"Upset at Clacton on Sea"


840 by 590mm. (on 840 by 590mm. sheet), pen, ink and watercolour drawing with corrections in gouache, captioned "Clacton on Sea", signed lower right, unmounted sheet


Published within The Sunday Times, 31 August 2014. Later published in Sixty Years of Being Rude (2019), p. 509.

At the end of August 2014 the Conservative MP for Clacton, Douglas Carswell, announced his defection to the UKIP. This triggered a by-election, on 9 October 2014, which saw Carswell retain his seat.


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