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51 - Sir Max Beerbohm NEAC NPS,
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Sir Max Beerbohm NEAC NPS, British 1872-1956 - Mr Harry Nicholls in A Life of Pleasure; watercolour and pencil on paper, signed lower right 'Max', 29.8 x 23.3 cm (ARR) Note: Mr Harry Nicholls was a famous comedian and Victorian burlesque performer. Sir Max Beerbohm was a famous writer, comic and caricaturist, and was a noted dandy of his day. His formed an artistic circle with Oscar Wilde, Audrey Beardsley and Sir William Rothenstein, and his work was included in major publications such as 'The Yellow Book' in 1894. His caricatures and are regarded for their lightness of touch and precision of line, and his signature enlarged heads. Exhibitions of his drawings were held at the Carfax Gallery and the Leicester Galleries in his lifetime. Many of these works are now in public collections, including with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Tate and the V & A.
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