Study in temptation: Edward Carson and Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar-Law

Details

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
Study in temptation: Edward Carson and Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar-Law
signed and dated 'Max/1914' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on grey/blue paper
12 x 7 in. (31 x 18.4 cm.)

Provenance

with Leicester Galleries, London, 1928.
L.J. Cadbury.

Literature

R. Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, p. 91, no. 904.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Max Beerbohm, December 1928, no. 81.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Bonar Law, Prime Minister between 1922 and 1923, believed that Irish Home Rule should only be executed with the exclusion of Ulster (this was most probably influenced by his own family ties - his father was an Ulsterman from Scottish descent). By 1912 he worked closely with Edward Carson as both championed Ulster in the Home Rule debate. Irish Devolution was achieved by 1921.

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