Author: FFOLKES, MICHAEL (pseud BRIAN DAVIS)
Title: ffanfare!
Description: London : Faber & Faber, 1953.. First edition 63 p., black & white cartoons, 28 x 22 cm. HARDCOVER: (Orig. carton hardback with col. pictorial boards. Back cover bit discolored.VERY GOOD) ¶ VERY RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER.. Michael ffolkes was born Brian Davis in London on 6 June 1925, the son of the commercial graphic artist Walter Lawrence Davis. He attended Leigh Hall College, Essex, and from 1941 to 1943 studied art at St Martin's School of Art under wood-engraver John Farleigh. In 1942, aged seventeen, ffolkes sold his first drawing to Punch, signing it "brian". In 1943, after working in various commercial art studios, ffolkes joined the Royal Navy, and saw wartime service in the Far East. After demobilisation in 1946 he studied painting at Chelsea School of Art, adopting the name "Michael ffolkes" after thumbing through a copy of Burke's Peerage. Influenced by Disney, Pont, Emett, Ronald Searle, Andre Francois, Rubens and Saul Steinberg, ffolkes worked in pen and ink and wash but was particularly adept with watercolours. He died in 1988.

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