Edward Ardizzone
Edward Ardizzone
English , 1900 - 1979
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The Fattest Woman in the World, 1956

By Edward Ardizzone
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The Fattest Woman in the World
    • Lithograph • Signed in plate • 48cm x 73.5cm
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    Edward Ardizzone
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    English , 1900 - 1979
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    Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) was a book illustrator, printmaker, artist and writer for children. He was born in French Indo-China (now Vietnam). When Ardizzone was four or five years old his mother brought him and two siblings to Suffolk to be looked after by their grandmother so that she and her husband could remain in the Far East.

    Ardizzone studied art at Westminster School of Art in 1920-1 under Bernard Meninsky. He was an official war artist during World War II, working widely in Europe and North Africa, and his illustrated diaries are notable records. After the war he established a strong reputation as a book illustrator and writer. He had a retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974.
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    The Fattest Woman in the World
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    Original signed in plate lithograph from the first series of the Guinness Lithographs.
    Originally called The Heaviest Woman in the World, Ardizzone illustrated the record for the world's heaviest recorded woman as described in the section for Heaviest Heavyweights in The Human Being chapter of The Guinness Book of Records, 1955.

    Bears the bind stamp from the Archive of Stanley Jones.

    Exhibited at the King's Lynn Festival, Fermoy Gallery, Peace to Pop exhibition, 2024.

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    • MEDIUM Lithograph
    • DATE OF WORK 1956
    • HEIGHT (CM) 48
    • WIDTH (CM) 73.5
    • ORIENTATION Landscape
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