caricatured portrait of the politician and orator, journalist and author, Michael Foot (1913-2010), vehement opponent of the appeasement of Hitler and passionate campaigner for nuclear disarmament, Secretary of State for Employment, Leader of the House of Commons, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, then Leader of the Labour Party as Leader of the Opposition until 1983, finally retiring in 1992.
Richard Willson (1939-2011) began as a cartoonist for The Observer in 1968, before moving to The Times and Sunday Times in the early 1970s. His popular and distinctive work also frequently appeared in The Spectator, Washington Post, New Statesman, and New Scientist,
pen and black ink, 380 x 380 mm. (15 x 15 in), signed lower left,