Scarfe at Sotheby’s: Sixty Years of Being Rude
Scarfe at Sotheby’s: Sixty Years of Being Rude
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December 6, 02:28 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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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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