Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

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Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

No.2 The Pines, Max lunching with A.C.S. and Watts-Dunton

signed, dated and inscribed lower right No.2 The Pines Max 1926, pencil and watercolour
15¾ x 11in. (40 x 28cm.)

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, London
H.F. Previté

Literature

R. Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, no. 1645

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, 'Ghosts' by Max Beerbohm, Dec. 1928, no.73

Lot Essay

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and the author and solicitor Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914) set up house together at 'The Pines', Putney Hill, in 1879, the move being designed to wean the poet from alcoholism. Max Beerbohm paid his first visit to the house in the spring of 1899, and left a celebrated account in his essay 'No.2 The Pines', published in 1920.

The pictures on the wall in the drawing room are by Rossetti, with whom Swinburne and Watts-Dunton had been intimate. The large one is a study of Jane Morris, of which there were several in Watts-Dunton's collection

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