Portraits -- Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam
Watercolour, 63.5 x 43.2 cm, 1989
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Portraits:
Terry Gilliam

Animator, actor, writer and film director, born 1940; animator, coauthor and performer in Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-74); director of Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (1988).

A first study for a full-scale six-part portrait of the Python team which [takes] the form of a polyptych with references to Python characterisations as well as to other aspects of the lives and careers of the group who now work independently.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 98.

See also  > >  Terry Jones,   Michael Palin,   Monty Python

 

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