Publicity Mr Shaw to the Laureate: 'Bravo! Without any blarney, Bravo! But look here: you'll never cut me out unless you broadcast.'

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Publicity Mr Shaw to the Laureate: 'Bravo! Without any blarney, Bravo! But look here: you'll never cut me out unless you broadcast.'

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Price

£4,500

Signed

Signed, inscribed with title and dated 1929

Medium

Watercolour and ink

Dimensions

12 ¼ x 14 inches

Illustrated

Manchester Guardian, 23 November 1929

Exhibited

'Sir Max Beerbohm', The Leicester Galleries, London, 1952, no 138;
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1871-2022', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November-December 2022, no 89

The present work was executed after the publication of Robert Bridges' (poet laureate 1913-1930) 'The Testament of Beauty' in 1929. Robert Bridges and George Bernard Shaw were both members of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English, but Shaw was also a successful broadcaster.

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