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Wee Willie Winkie (Worsley)
Wee Willie Winkie and The Gibraltar Apes (Original)

Wee Willie Winkie and The Gibraltar Apes (Original) by Wee Willie Winkie (Worsley) at The Illustration Art Gallery

Ref: WorsleyJOverboard (Click for LARGE picture)

Artist: John Worsley (biography)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 14" x 17" (360mm x 430mm)
Date: 1963

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by John Worsley.

The incredibly popular Wee Willie Winkie stories chart the travels of a young protagonist who had a special ticket that would take him and his baby elephant Hannibal anywhere in the world by land, sea or air.

John Worsley paints with extraordinary panache, vibrancy, attention to detail and humour. This lovely page shows Willie meeting the apes in Gibraltar and subsequently falling overboard the cruise ship.

A very early full page painting for the 5th ever issue of Treasure magazine published 916th February 1963.

The artist, who also worked as a portrait artist for the Metropolitan Police, uses his extraordinary skill to create life like characters both adults and children can identify and empathise with.

We must remember that Worsley spent time in a P.O.W. camp after being captured in then Yugoslavia, and yet achieves a fantastic liberation from the past by painting in such a fluid joyful manner. Worsley's work can be found in The Imperial War Museum, The Maritime Museum, The collection of HM The Queen, The Savage club and many other private collections including Royal Families, banks and Colleges.

This illustration board does show signs of surface tear to the top, where the title which originally read 'Wee Willie Winkie Comes to Spain, has been torn off. This is reflected in the price of the piece.


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Wee Willie Winkie (Worsley)

Wee Willie Winkie (Worsley)