Cartoon

Spectator, 28th May 2016

Missing Mondrians

It has all gone rather quiet on my little book.
The other British libraries did not request a copy and I have done nothing about the Library of Congress.

I have been occupied with other non-Mondrian projects, but I am inclined in the near future to send copies to the British libraries, stylishly-redacted copies to the LoC and then call it a day.

I did call into the V&A library recently to check that they still had it while researching Hepworth Square Forms.

Katy Perry

I have no idea who Katy Perry is, but she intersected with PM in 2014.

Here's a link.

It might be possible to identify the background using the Blackburn-Mondrian Index.

Mondrian Elephant

On sale on ebay, ending today.
Priced at £34.50, I thought that a little greedy: I would have bought it at £20.

Described in the sale as,

Elephant Parade 10cm Hommage to Mondriaan collectable Elephant

All the elephants are hand painted in Thailand so may not be identical to the image
Each replica elephant sold goes towards supporting the work of the Asian elephant Foundation and is part of an exclusive limited edition only available for a limited time.
Each Elephant comes boxed with a certificate listing its name, artist, year, parade and unique serial number

Mondrian cup

Happy birthday to me (and to Marty Bax).
I received said cup PLUS a Jeremy Corbyn plush.

Hiccups (and cartoons in general)

Bought today on eBay, a rather faded and yellowed cartoon described as

"This auction is for the original art to the July 18th, 1959 Mister Breger - written and drawn by Dave Breger. Shows out hero at a MOMA like museum looking at Mondrians - Modern Art on wall. King Features Syndicate, Inc. tag at bottom 1959 - zip-a-tone yellowed but art looks clean otherwise. Very light stain at very bottom right. Original Skinner auction tag on back and stamped June 19, 1959 from original engraver in prep for publication. "

 The caption is (including detailed punctuation),

"'...and then,' it says, 'his work was somewhat affected by a three-week attack of hiccups...'"

Mondrian Studios II

My piece on the studios is here.

In a few days Cees W. de Jong and Marty Bax will publish a book on the subject. Amazon link here.

The Telegraph today published a long piece by Lucy Davies on their web site (though not in the paper edition I bought, or rather got free from Waitrose). Here's the link.

She might deserve a copy of the book.