A Phoenix Too Frequent

A beautiful edition of Christopher Fry's story illustrated by Searle in 1959 in a more classical style than usual.  He would do complimentary drawings the next year for Robert Grave's 'The Anger of Achilles' 1960

Searle's Eye View: Imaginary Portraits

After Searle left England for France in 1961 his work still appeared in Punch magazine for another year. This long series of Imaginary Portraits depicted Searle's version of well known creative types of the day.  Unlike the more serious Heroes of Our Time portraits from the late fifties these are much more cartoon-like.

 1 Enid Blyton

2 Colin Wilson

3 Samuel Beckett (Punch, 13 December 1961)

4 P.G Wodehouse

(Punch, 20 December, 1961.)

5 C. S. Forester

 6 John Osborne

7 Robert Graves

(Punch, Imaginary Portraits: 7, 10 January, 1962.)

Photographed from the original artwork

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9 Eugene Ionesco

10  Tennesee Williams

11 Veronica Wedgwood

12 Alan Sillitoe

13  Angus Wilson

 14  C. P. Snow

 15 Ivy Compton Burnett

16 Lawrence Durrell

17 Iris Murdoch

(PUNCH, 21 MARCH 1962, PAGE 478)

Photographed from the original artwork

18 Aldous Huxley

19 Muriel Sparke

20 Sir Arthur Bryant

21 Georges Simenon

 Photographed from the original artwork

22 Alberto Moravia

23 Jack Kerouac

24 Denise Robbins

 25 Freya Starke

 26 Benjamin Britten

27 Alfred Hitchcock

Photographed from the original artwork

28 Walt Disney

(Punch, 30 May, 1962.)

(annotated by Searle)

29 Ingmar Bergman (annotated by Searle)

30 John Betjeman (annotated by Searle)

31 Compton Mackenzie (annotated by Searle)

32 Brendan Behan (annotated by Searle)

33 Agatha Christie

34 Ian Fleming (annotated by Searle)

35 John Bratby (annotated by Searle)

36 Pietro Annigoni (annotated by Searle)

37 Shelagh Delaney (annotated by Searle)

38 Harold Hobson (annotated by Searle)

39 Graham Sutherland Graham Sutherland
(Punch, Issue 22, August 1962)
(annotated by Searle)

40 C. N. Parkinson

41 Bernard Buffet
(PUNCH, 5 SEPTEMBER 1962, PAGE 356)

42 N. F. Simpson
(Punch, 12 September, 1962.)
(annotated by Searle)

Photographed from the original artwork

Harold Pinter

British Theatre drawings for Punch
French Theatre drawings for Punch
Heroes of Our Time Portraits for Punch