[ Peter Ustinov. ] Nine original drawings, including a signed pen drawing of 'King Lear', two theatrical portraits ('Carlo Goldoni' and '<Stuchler?>'), 'Nadia [Boulanger]', and studies of male heads.

All items in fair condition, on six pieces of lightly aged and worn paper. ONE: Black ink pencil drawing, signed in bottom left-hand corner '"King Lear" | Peter Ustinov'. On 38 x 27.5 cm paper. Striking caricature of a hawkish and hairy Lear, eyes blazing, clutching his crown in his right hand while a courtier looks on from the bottom right. TWO: Black ink drawing, captioned by Ustinov at bottom right 'Carlo Goldoni'. On 38 x 27.5 cm paper. A head and shoulders portrait of a bewigged Goldoni, staring impishly to his right. THREE: Black ink drawing, captioned by Ustinov at bottom right something approaching ''. (The name does not accord with any known theatrical figure, the subject looking more like Arthur Schnitzler, but with no hair. ) A head and shoulders portrait of a bald old aristocratic man with large moustache, wearing what looks like a button-up Prussian military uniform. FOUR: On reverse of same piece as the King Lear drawing. Head and shoulders portrait in black ink. Captioned 'Nadia' in bottom right. A tight-lipped Boulanger, without spectacles, stares at the viewer with heavy-lidded eyes and close-cropped hair. FIVE: Black ink drawing of the head and shoulders of bespectacled man. On 37 x 25.5 cm paper. SIX and SEVEN: Black ink drawings on reverse of Item Five, which has been folded to make two 25.5 x 18.5 cm pages. On the right-hand page is Item Six, a head of an Elizabethan gentleman (Shakespeare?) with pointed beard and ruff. Autograph notes in blue ink in bottom left-hand corner. On the left-hand page is Item Seven, three studies of a man's head (same as Item Five?). EIGHT and NINE: Two pencil studies of men's heads, both on 37 x 27.5 cm paper. One a Dylan Thomasish figure looking downards, and the other a cruder portrait of a close-cropped individual.?>