The poster design is for a show at the Drian Gallery, London W2, 9th-20th June 1959. The Drian Gallery were his agents at the time. The poster is collaged with green lettering backing a splattered tachiste drawing in watercolour. Painted on a light cartridge paper, the sheet is creased.Sheet size 535 x 415mm. Provenance: Roseberys Auction House. 'Occasionally the creative seed flourishes on stony ground. this is certainly the case with Frank Fidler whose early life was anything but conducive to the arts. Born in 1910 to a family of flower growers in North London, his childhood passed practically unnoticed by his parents in the dawn-to-dusk business of earning a living from the land. Young Fidler also had to turn to and by the time he was eight or nine years old he was already working after school and in the holidays. His earliest realisation of colour values dates from an even earlier period, when, at the age of four, he was allowed to assist in sorting roses into various shades.There