Lot 176
  • 176

Sir Max Beerbohm

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sir Max Beerbohm
  • S. Sebastian of Highbury (Joseph Chamberlain)
  • signed and titled
  • pen and ink and wash
  • 31 by 18cm.; 12 by 7in.

Provenance

The Leicester Galleries, London, June 1957
Lady Catlin
The Piccadilly Gallery, London, July 2003

Exhibited

London, The Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Sir Max Beerbohm, June 1957, cat. no.14.

Literature

Rupert Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, Macmillan, London, 1972, p. 43, no.284.

Condition

The sheet is apparently sound. The sheet may have discoloured slightly and there are one or two tiny specks of staining but otherwise the work is in good overall condition. Held in a stained wood frame with a cream mount; unexamined out of frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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