Rex Whistler 1905-1944 British School 20th.Century. Original Pen and Ink drawing. "Worth Getting Up For!" Design for the Shell-Mex Ltd. Advertisment. Executed in April 1929. Exhibited: London Arts Council of Great Britain "That's Shell that is" 1983/4 Cat. No.43. Provenance: Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd. Private Collection U.K. 16 by 13 cms. Image.
Reginald John 'Rex' Whistler was a highly sucessful painter of Murals, Society portraits, Theatre design, advertising and book illustrations. "A Bright Young Thing" He was killed in action in Normandy in 1944. Perhaps the greatest artistic loss of the War.