‘Vicky’, born in Berlin, began drawing caricatures freelance in 1928 after his father committed suicide. He sold his first drawing aged 15 and subsequently began to work for the journal 12 Uhr Blatt, which took a strongly anti-Hitler stance. The Nazis took over the magazine in 1933 and ‘Vicky’ arrived in Britain as a refugee in 1935. He drew for a whole variety of publications, including the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and the New Statesman. ‘Vicky’s famous portrayal of Harold Macmillan as ‘Supermac’ first appeared in the Evening Standard in November 1958. Randolph Churchill described ‘Vicky’ as a genius and Michael Foot thought him ‘the best cartoonist in the world’.
Cartoons for sale:
- BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH, CAESAR!, 1950
- £685
- 50cm x 32cm
- News Chronicle
- Harold Wilson, 1964
- £245
- 15cm x 23cm
- Evening Standard
- Sir Stafford Cripps, 1949
- £195
- 7cm x 24cm
- News Chronicle
- SOLD, 1959
- 14cm x 24cm
- Evening Standard
Iain Macleod
- OUT OF THE BAG?, 1951
- £225
- 40cm x 22cm
- News Chronicle
- No Caption, 1950
- £435
- 38cm x 33cm
- News Chronicle
- Caption Displayed, 1965
- £685
- 44cm x 33cm
- Evening Standard
- Caption Displayed, 1964
- £445
- 52cm x 39cm
- Evening Standard
- A V Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, KG, CH, PC, 1950
- £185
- 25cm x 40cm
- News Chronicle
- Caption Displayed, 1959
- £875
- 50cm x 64cm
- Evening Standard
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This cartoon was given to Humphrey Lyttelton’s father, George William Lyttelton, a housemaster at Eton College, by the cartoonist, after Lyttelton senior had written to Vicky complaining about the cartoonist’s depiction of the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan which was "a bad characterisation - harrassed and worried instead of bland and unflappable."
- Caption Displayed
25th Jan. 1959 - £2750
- 48cm x 42cm
- Evening Standard