The other guests enjoyed a lively game of Blind Man's Bluff
1988
illustration for The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base, published by Viking Kestrel/Penguin Books Australia, Melbourne, 1988, p. [18]
- Medium
- watercolour, gouache, coloured pencil, pencil and pen and ink
- Measurements
- 39.8 × 29.9 cm irreg. (image) 50.9 × 36.7 cm (sheet)
- Inscription
- inscribed in pen and ink (in image) l.r.: G Base / '88
- Accession Number
- 2014.562
- Department
- Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Albert Ullin OAM, 2014
© Graeme Base
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Gallery 17
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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Written and illustrated by Graeme Base, the mystery picture book The Eleventh Hour revolves around Horace the Elephant’s eleventh birthday party, to which he invites his ten best animal friends. Before the guests can enjoy the wonderful feast, they must play eleven party games. By eleven o’clock, the time of the feast, a shocking discovery is made: someone has eaten all the food! It is up to the reader to identify the thief by deciphering the messages and codes on each page. The question is, Did the grey cat do it?
