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Gerald Scarfe
English caricaturist
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Gerald Scarfe (born June 1, 1936, London, England) is an English caricaturist best known for his savagely grotesque portraits of politicians and other public figures. For most of his first 19 years Scarfe was bedridden with chronic asthma, and he began to draw during these long periods of confinement. After a brief, uncongenial period with an advertising agency, he became a freelance artist, and his early work was accepted by the Evening Standard, Punch, and, particularly, Private Eye in the 1960s. In 1966 the publication of a collection of his drawings, Gerald Scarfe’s People, revealed a wide range of subject ...(100 of 174 words)