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70 pp; 57 figures (many in color). Folio. Original stiff wrappers. Upper corners of wrappers and text leaves creased, else Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY ROY CALNE (on the half-title): "For Celia,/ Many thanks for all/ your help over the/ years,/ With best wishes/ from/ Roy/ 8.8.91". Who is "Celia"? One possibility is Celia Hyde who was a transplant nurse at Royal Papworth Hospital. Quoting from Wikipedia about Roy Calne as a transplant surgeon and as an artist: Calne was "a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. He was part of the team that performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968, the world's first liver, heart and lung transplantation in 1987, the first intestinal transplant in the UK in 1992 and the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver and kidney cluster transplantation in 1994. . . . Calne enjoyed drawing and painting from an early age. At school he was taught and encouraged by an art teacher Francis Russell Flint, son of the Scottish artist William Russell Flint. As a medical student in London he would regularly visit art galleries to copy the works of great masters. In 1988 he performed a liver transplant on the Scottish painter John Bellany, who began to paint self-portraits while still in intensive care and had completed 60 during his hospital stay. Bellany gave Calne painting lessons and the two became friends, painting portraits of each other. One of his portraits of Bellany was exhibited by the Royal Academy. Calne went on to paint some transplant patients, believing that it brought closeness and humanity to the surgeon-patient relationship, especially with children. An exhibition of his paintings entitled The Gift of Life was displayed at the Barbican in 1991 [exhibition catalogue offered here]." Contents of this catalogue: John Bellany, "Sir Roy Calne: An Appreciation"; Dr. Stephen Lock, "Sir Roy Calne: Surgical Scientist"; Professor Anthony Clare, "Sir Roy Calne: Surgeon Painter"; John Sheeran, "Sir Roy Calne: The Paintings; "Catalogue of Works" [there are 30, oil paintings and works on paper]. The Barbican Centre, London 24 July-11 August 1991. The World Trade Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Deptember-4 October 1991. 29 Sandoz Pharma AG Basle, Switzerland, 11-20 November 1991. Exhibition organized by Sheeran Lock Fine Art Consultants and supported by an education grant from Sandoz Pharma AG. See also "An Artist in the Operating Room and Beyond" on the Lasker Foundation website.
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