Chris Beetles Gallery

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Frank Schuster

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Price

£2,750

Signed

Signed 'Max', inscribed 'Frankie Schu' and dated 1923

Medium

Watercolour with pencil

Dimensions

12 x 6 ½ inches

Provenance

The Rev R F Beloe

Literature

Rupert Hart-Davis (Compiler), A Catalogue of The Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London: Macmillan, 1972, no 1389

Exhibited

The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2008', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2008-January 2009, no 56

Leo Frank Schuster (1852-1927) was a British patron of the arts, impresario and lover of music. He was of Jewish and German origin, educated at Eton, and worked initially in his father's bank. His homes in Westminster and Bray were meeting places for artists, writers and musicians including Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent, and Sir Adrian Boult . He became a close friend of Gabriel Faure and Edward Elgar, as well as the poet Siegfried Sassoon,

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