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Rolf Harris b.1930 Australian OOB Still Life

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Rolf Harris b.1930 Australian OOB Still Life
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Oil on board. Featuring a still life scene of fruits. Signed and attributed to Rolf Harris (b.1930, Australian). Signature on the lower right corner. 9.4 x 13 in. (24 x 33 cm). Harris moved to England in 1952 and became an art student at City and Guilds of London Art School in South London, at the age of 22. In 1953 he found work in television, at the BBC, performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in a one-hour children's show called Jigsaw, with a puppet called "Fuzz", made and operated on the show by magician Robert Harbin. He went on to illustrate Harbin's Paper Magic programme in 1956. In 1954, Harris was a regular on a BBC Television programme Whirligig, which featured a character called "Willoughby", who sprang to life on a drawing board, but was erased at the end of each episode. PROVENANCE: Private Collection (Manchester, UK)