Chris Beetles Gallery

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Sir Nigel Playfair

Quiz (Powys Evans) (1899-1982)

Price

£1,450

Signed

Signed
Inscribed with title below mount

Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

10 x 7 inches

Illustrated

Drawn for but not illustrated in The London Mercury

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1780-1993', Chris Beetles Gallery, 1993, No 381

Nigel Playfair (1874-1934) began his career as an actor in plays by Shaw (at the court theatre) and Shakespeare (directed by Beerbohm Tree and Granville-Barker), however, he is best remembered for his greatly successful managership of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, which resulted in his knighthood (1928).

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