Martin Luther King by Nicolas Bentley

A portrait caricature of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drawn in pen, ink, and wash by the British artist and cartoonist Nicolas Bentley (signed in the bottom left corner as Nicolas Bentley)

Mount 28 x 41

Drawing 11 x 14

Nicolas Clerihew Bentley was a British author and illustrator, best known for his humorous artworks in both books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. He is perhaps most famous for his illustration of the second edition Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, the first being quickly withdrawn to allow for Bentley’s illustrated version.