Shaw (George Bernard).- Beerbohm (Max) Pair of original illustrations satirising the lover affair between Shaw and "Mrs Patrick Campbell", pencil, watercolour, both signed and dated '1922', each with pencil inscriptions, 'Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Shaw as They Respectively Appeared to Themselves', and 'Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Shaw as They Respectively Appear to Each Other”, both 213 x 190 mm (8 3/8 x 7 1/2 in), under glass, laid onto early mounts, uniformly framed, 1922 (2)

Provenance:
Collection of S.H. Benson Ltd.;
Sale. Phillips, London 2nd June 1992, lot 13;
The Seymour Stein Collection;
Sale. Bellmans, Modern British & 20th Century Art, 21st November 2023, lots 53 and 54;
Where acquired by the present owner.

⁂ Campbell’s relationship with George Bernard Shaw began in the late 1890s, when he praised her talent as a critic and drew inspiration from her for his plays. They met in 1897, but their bond intensified in 1912 during negotiations for Pygmalion, developing into a passionate yet unconsummated love affair sustained through an extraordinary correspondence.