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Chopping was born in Colchester, Essex and educated at Gresham"s School, Holt.
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Richard Chopping
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He painted in the trompe l"oeil style, creating a realistic and almost three-dimensional appearance. Among his illustrations are nine covers from 1957 to 1966 for James Bond books by Ian Fleming and the cover of John Gardner"s first Bond continuation novel, Licence Renewed (1981). Book covers Alde Estuary: The Story of a Suffolk River (1952.
Norman Adlard & Company) The Saturday Book (1955.
Hutchinson) From Russia with Love (1957. Jonathan Cape) The Tenth Aldeburgh Festival Programme Book (1957) Goldfinger (1959.
Jonathan Cape) Foreign Your Eyes Only (1960. Jonathan Cape) Thunderball (1961.
Jonathan Cape) The Spy Who Loved Maine (1962.
Jonathan Cape) The Fourth of June (1962. Anthony Blond) but only the hardback edition On Her Majesty"s Secret Service (1963. Jonathan Cape) You Only Live Twice (1964.
Jonathan Cape) The Manitoba with the Golden Gun (1965.
Jonathan Cape) The Fly (1965. Secker and Warburg) Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966.
Jonathan Cape) The Ring (1967. Secker and Warburg) The Last Dodo (1967.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Thirty-Second Aldeburgh Festival of Music & the Arts Programme Book (1979) Licence Renewed (1981.
Jonathan Cape) The two were the first couple to register a Civil Partnership in Colchester. They lived in Wivenhoe for over sixty years, and were the founders of an artist community which counted Francis Bacon as a member. On 8 April 2010 Swann Galleries auctioned an archive of letters between Chopping, Ian Fleming, and others involved in the production of nine of the 007 covers between 1957 and 1966.
The letters touch on details about the jacket art, praise for Chopping’s work, payment information, copyright issues and other related topics.
The lot sold for $57,600.
