PARES, Bip. Original Dust Jacket Proof for Seldon Truss's Escort to Danger
PARES, Ethel ‘Bip’. Original artist’s dust jacket proof for Escort to Danger by Seldon Truss. No publisher. circa 1935. Single card sheet. 26 × 19.5cm, design itself measures 20 × 16.5cm. With the artist’s notes to top and to verso, ‘B. P. 667. H’ in the artist’s hand.
Ethel ‘Bip’ Pares was a tremendously active illustrator and commercial artist whose life and career was just as vibrant and pioneering as her output.
A fascinating insight into the artist at work, this design depicting a man in a diving suit over a raised wave, with a headstone beyond—the mystery centres on a man deemed to be using a diving suit to steal sunken bullion. However, this proof was not used and the final design depicts a perhaps more controlled though equally striking dust jacket. Whether the publisher or the artist herself made the choice, we cannot be sure.
PARES, Ethel ‘Bip’. Original artist’s dust jacket proof for Escort to Danger by Seldon Truss. No publisher. circa 1935. Single card sheet. 26 × 19.5cm, design itself measures 20 × 16.5cm. With the artist’s notes to top and to verso, ‘B. P. 667. H’ in the artist’s hand.
Ethel ‘Bip’ Pares was a tremendously active illustrator and commercial artist whose life and career was just as vibrant and pioneering as her output.
A fascinating insight into the artist at work, this design depicting a man in a diving suit over a raised wave, with a headstone beyond—the mystery centres on a man deemed to be using a diving suit to steal sunken bullion. However, this proof was not used and the final design depicts a perhaps more controlled though equally striking dust jacket. Whether the publisher or the artist herself made the choice, we cannot be sure.
PARES, Ethel ‘Bip’. Original artist’s dust jacket proof for Escort to Danger by Seldon Truss. No publisher. circa 1935. Single card sheet. 26 × 19.5cm, design itself measures 20 × 16.5cm. With the artist’s notes to top and to verso, ‘B. P. 667. H’ in the artist’s hand.
Ethel ‘Bip’ Pares was a tremendously active illustrator and commercial artist whose life and career was just as vibrant and pioneering as her output.
A fascinating insight into the artist at work, this design depicting a man in a diving suit over a raised wave, with a headstone beyond—the mystery centres on a man deemed to be using a diving suit to steal sunken bullion. However, this proof was not used and the final design depicts a perhaps more controlled though equally striking dust jacket. Whether the publisher or the artist herself made the choice, we cannot be sure.