Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

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Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

A Solution

signed and dated lower right Max 1911, inscribed lower centre A Solution Mr. Arthur Balfour: '... And so - though of course it is quite possible that you are none of you at all restive really - I have prevailed on dear Gerald to return to public life and lead you in my stead.',pencil, pen, black ink and watercolour
12 x 14½in. (30.5 x 37cm.)

Provenance

Piccadilly Gallery, London, 1977, where purchased by the present owner

Literature

R. Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, no.71, pl.14

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Max in Retrospect, May 1952, no.4
London, Piccadilly Gallery, Max Beerbohm, Sept.-Oct. 1972, no.5

Lot Essay

This caricature depicts the resignation from the Conservative Party leadership in Nov. 1911 of the Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), Conservative politician and British Prime Minister (1902-05). He offers instead the services of his brother Gerald Balfour (a former President of the Board of Trade) to his colleagues (from left to right) Lord Hugh Cecil; George Wyndham; Edward Carson; F.E. Smith; Austen Chamberlain; Henry Chaplin and Walter Long

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