Portrait of Monsieur Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942)

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SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)
Portrait of Monsieur Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942)
signed 'Max' (centre left) and inscribed 'Monsieur Jacques/ Blanche/ For Charles Conder,/ Affectionately' (lower left)
pen, black ink and grey wash on laid paper with 'Wessex Antique' watermark
12 ¼ x 7 ½ in. (31 x 19 cm.)

Provenance

The artist, by whom gifted to Charles Conder.
Eva Gabriele Reichmann (1897-1998), London.
with the Piccadilly Gallery, London, January 1982, from whom acquired by the late Barry Humphries.

Literature

R. Hart-Davies, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, p. 33, no. 150.
J. Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche, London, 2012, p. 113.

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Lot Essay

Jacques-Emile Blanche was a French artist, and friend of Degas, Manet and Renoir. He made frequent visits to London and befriended Conder in Paris in 1895. Blanche also painted a celebrated portrait of Conder in 1904 (Tate Britain, London, see J-E. Blanche, Portraits of a Lifetime, London, 1937, illustrated facing p. 84).

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