From Russia With Love – AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY KENNETH LEWIS – Ian Fleming

Description

An superb original painting by the late artist Kenneth Lewis of From Russia with Love. Kenneth Lewis was commissioned to paint a handful of paintings of his rejected dust jacket back in 2004, that were pre sold to clients. Mr Lewis was handed a Smith and Wesson gun by Ian Fleming and asked to design a dust wrapper with the gun as a centre piece whilst working at the Kemsley Press. Mr Lewis’s painting, although liked by Ian Fleming, was subsiquently rejected by Fleming in favour of Richard Chopping’s Tromp L’oeil design. The rose through the gun was kenneth Lewis’s idea, which was liked by Fleming who asked chopping to incorporate it in his design. The jacket is painted on a matt green background The painting’s is in the shape of a dust wrapper with a blank rear panel and flaps, with the exception of Kenneth Lewis’s signature to the front flap. The picture is superbly framed with a Cape copy of From Russia with Love incorporated into the picture and framing.