A Musical Entente Cordiale The gloomy prospect of more eccentric orchestras

Henry Mayo Bateman (1887-1970)

Price

£2,750

Signed

Signed and dated 1910

Medium

Ink with pencil on tinted paper

Dimensions

14 x 10 inches

Illustrated

Bystander, 14 September, 1910

Exhibited

'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1807-2026' Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2026-January 2027, no 80

'The success of the Russian Balalaika Orchestra (can the centre picture be intended to represent it?) in London leads our artist to fear let we be deluged with instrumental forces of other countries. If his imagination is to be trusted, the prospect is a gloomy one'
Bystander, 14 September 1910

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