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SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)

Lot 37
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ID 1362969
Lot 37 | SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)
A Recollection: Conder, Max, Rothenstein and Wilde at the Café Royal
signed, inscribed and dated 'Is this / what you/ would / imply, / Will? / Max / 1929' (centre left) and with inscription
ink and grey wash, with a passage from Rothenstein’s Men and Memories pasted onto the sketch upper left
7 7/8 x 11 1/8 in. (20 x 28 cm.)
Executed in 1929.




Provenance

with The Leicester Galleries, London.
John Arlott O.B.E. (1914-1991); (†) Christie's, London, 25 September 1992, lot 48, where acquired by the late Barry Humphries.



Literature

W. Rothenstein, Men and Memories, Recollections of William Rothenstein 1872-1900, London, 1931, illustrated facing p. 220.
Art & The Home, London, 1931, vol. II, no. 7, p. 52.
R. Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, p.123, no. 1322.
T. Sato and L. Lambourne, The Wilde Years Oscar Wilde & the Art of his time, London, 2000, p. 93, cat. no. 33, illustrated.
S. Calloway and C. Corbeau Parsons, Aubrey Beardsley, London, 2020, illustrated p. 110.



Exhibited

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Charles Conder, September-October 1967, no. 28 (lent by John Arlott, Esq.).
London, Barbican Art Galleries, The Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde & the Art of His Time, October 2000-January 2001, no.33.
London, Tate Britain and Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Aubrey Beardsley, 2020, no. 195.
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