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mounted together and framed for the artist to be exhibited at an exhibition of Shepard’s work. Inscribed on the reverse with Shepard’s name and address, and titled in Shepard’s hand on the backing board, “Winnie the Pooh - “The Expotition to the North Pole” Ernest H Shepard Woodmancote Lodsworth Sus- sex”. [44216] £45,000 ‘ The Expotition to the North Pole’ forms chapter 8 of Winnie the Pooh. These drawings are new compositions and were probably drawn for inclusion in The World of Pooh but not used. The preliminary pencil sketches (on a single page laid out as mounted here) are held in the V&A and are referred to on p.45 of The Pooh Sketchbook with the note, “This appears to be a preliminary sketch for a later coloured illustration (possibly for The World of Pooh) which was not used”. PROVENANCE: Exhibited at F.W.Chapman & Sons, Hasle- mere, 29 May - 12 June 1965.
206. SHEPARD, Ernest Howard WINNIE THE POOH IN OWL’S PARLOUR [c.1956]. Pen, ink and coloured pencil on paper. 128x114mm. In excel- lent condition. [43345] £60,000 A charming colour drawing of Pooh’s visit to Owl’s parlour, a re- drawn version of the drawing which originally appeared on page 49 of the first edition of Winnie the Pooh in 1926. This piece was pos - sibly a preparatory drawing for one of the new colour plates to be used in The World of Pooh, an omnibus edition of the Pooh stories, published in 1957. 207. SHEPARD, E.H. “THE EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE” c.1958. Two original drawings in pen, watercolour, and coloured pencil, on Whatman artist’s board depicting two scenes from a chapter of Winnie the Pooh. 197x195mm and 197x95mm,
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