# - Conrad, Joseph.

two sketches of the writer sitting on a chair, in profile (one with him holding papers), one of him standing, in profile, carrying umbrella, and two head-and-shoulders portraits, five sketches on four leaves, two sketches signed ("Major"), one marked "For future use" probably in an editorial hand,  sizes from 237 x 240mm. to 320 x 230mm, all preserved in card mounts, [c.1920], some slight soiling and creasing

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The caricaturist Henry Major (1889-1948) was born in a poor district of Budapest but moved to Paris at the age of nineteen, where he drew for Paris-Match. He later drew for The Graphic in the 1920s (probably around the time he drew these portraits of Conrad), before settling in New York from 1925 onwards, where he caricatured many artists, writers and statesmen, and worked as staff caricaturist on the Hearst newspapers. His paintings gained great popularity after his death when published as prints in the "Gay Philosopher" series.