BEERBOHM, 'UNISON', PENCIL AND WATERCOLOUR, 1920

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Beerbohm, Max
'Unison'(‘John Bull: “I wonder if you quite realise how utterly sick and tired of you I am.” | Sir Edward Carson: “I wonder if you quite realise how utterly sick and tired I am of meself.”)
paper

400 by 254mm., watercolour with pencil on tinted paper, signed, inscribed with title and dated 1920, additionally signed and dated 1921 by Edward Carson on mount, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance

EXHIBITED: ‘Exhibition of Works by Sir Max Beerbohm’, Leicester Galleries, May 1921, no 31; Empire Art Loan Collections Society, 1934-35, no 91 (lender: Francis L. Berry)

Literature

Max Beerbohm, A Survey (New York, 1921), plate 12; Rupert Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm (London, 1972), no 248

Catalogue Note

Between 1910 and 1921, as leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance and the Ulster Unionists, Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935) was frequently at odds with the British government. The present cartoon dates from the time of the Ireland Act of 1920. Carson advised his party to work for the exemption of six Ulster counties from Home Rule. This proposal was passed and the Parliament of Northern Ireland was established.