From the avocet design he came up with as the logo of the RSPB to designs for over 70 dust jackets for the well-known New Naturalist series of books, the artwork of the late Robert Gillmor (1936-2022) will be familiar to lots of readers, even if many of them never knew his name.
The cover of the sale catalogue that Dominic Winter (20/24% buyer’s premium) produced for a March 1 auction in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, featured the artwork for one of those dust jackets, a coloured linocut of White-fronted Geese used as the cover of a 1999 issue of Wildfowl & Wetlands magazine.
It sold for £1050, but it was ornithological works by others that brought higher bids.