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Lot 58
Beerbohm (Max) Autograph sonnet 'To W[alter] S[ickert]' signed 'Max', 1914.
Hammer Price: £1,100
Description
Beerbohm (Sir Max, caricaturist and writer, 1872-1956) Autograph sonnet 'To W[alter] S[ickert]' signed 'Max', on the back of an envelope, pin holes with rust marks to head and foot, light surface soiling, 120 x 94mm., June 1914.
⁂ An unpublished charming sonnet from the famous caricaturist, celebrating Sickert, both as a wiser, older figure in Beerbohm's youth and now as a youthful older figure 'Nailing your flag to some unseason'd mast/ A doer or the newest of the new things/ And deem'd unruly by the boys of "Blast"'.
Description
Beerbohm (Sir Max, caricaturist and writer, 1872-1956) Autograph sonnet 'To W[alter] S[ickert]' signed 'Max', on the back of an envelope, pin holes with rust marks to head and foot, light surface soiling, 120 x 94mm., June 1914.
⁂ An unpublished charming sonnet from the famous caricaturist, celebrating Sickert, both as a wiser, older figure in Beerbohm's youth and now as a youthful older figure 'Nailing your flag to some unseason'd mast/ A doer or the newest of the new things/ And deem'd unruly by the boys of "Blast"'.
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