Rex Whistler Pen Ink And Wash Drawing "I Am A Plain Wife" 1933

Rex Whistler 1905-1944. British School 20th.Century. Pen ink and wash drawing. "I am a plain wife" original artwork design for BP Ethyl Advertising 1933. 8 by 6 cms image. 27 by 23 cms. Framed overall. 

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.