Christie's: British and Continental Watercolours: Lot 221
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
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George Bernard Shaw at the tailor
signed and dated 'Max/1914' (lower right) and inscribed 'Life-Force, Woman-Set-Free, Superman, etc./Georg Brandes ('chand d'Idées): 'What'll you take for the lot?'/George Bernard Shaw: 'Immortality.'/Georg Brandes: 'Come, I've handled these same goods before! Coat, Mr. Schopenhauer's; waistcoat, Mr Ibsen's; trousers Mr Nietzsche's'/George Bernard Shaw: 'Oh, but look at the patches!' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour
15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (39.3 x 31.8 cm.)
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