Lot 419 § Sir Max Beerbohm (1872- 1956) ‘March of The Gentlemen’ pencil on paper study for a mural signed and dated 1922, inscribed ‘For Jack Lynch from Max 1922’ 47 x 58cm, original velvet mount, overall 67 x 77.5cm £7,000 - 10,000 This Beerbohm study cartoon was intended for a mural at his Rapallo villa, which was never executed. It was gifted to ‘Jack’ Bohun Lynch (1884-1928), a friend, writer, caricaturistillustrator , and author of ‘Max Beerbohm in perspective’ in 1922. This study presented a unique and remarkable socio-historical grouping of caricatures of Beerbohm’s closest friends, from the Cultural, Political, Social and Queer communities of Britain in the early 20th Century. Identified sitters by Sir Edward Marsh [ 1872-1953 ] KCVO CB CMG , pps to Joseph Chamberlain and Sir Winston Churchill. Sir Ray Lankester (1849-1929) - biologist Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) - poet, author, and critic Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935) - politician Cunninghame Graham (1852- 1936) - politician, writer, and journalist Philip Wilson Steer (1960-1942) - landscape artist Henry Tonks (1862-1937) - surgeon and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) - writer and philosopher John Masefield (1878-1967) - poet and writer John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) - artist John Galsworthy……. [1867-1933] English novelist and playwright Lytton Strachey (1880- 1932) - writer and critic Henry Chaplin (1840-1923) - politician Herbert Asquith (1852-1928) - former Prime Minister Sir Henry Irving, [1838-1905] Stage Actor and Manager. AJ , Earl Balfour (1848-1930) - former Prime Minister George S Street [1867- 1936] critic, journalist ad writer Sir Ian Malcolm (1868-1944) - Tory politician Director of Suez Canal Company Chief of Clan MacCallum/Malcolm. George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950] Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Inscribed verso ‘This cartoon by Max Beerbohm was drawn for a projected wall-painting for his villa at Rapallo, which was never executed. It was given by him to his friend and biographer (Jack) Bohun Lynch, to whom it is inscribed…… p……. It was purchased in from his estate in 1947 by Scribners…. Several of the identifications were supplied by Sir Edward Marsh’, KCVO CB CMG a British translator and friend to Rupert Brooke. The work was intended as the frieze for the dining Room in his and Lady Beerbohm’s villa, to where they had moved in 1910. Beerbohm had married his wife, the American actress Florence Kahn, in the same year. The work was purchased from Scribners in New York in c 1950 , by Sir Yehudi Menuhin, OM KBE. And was sold by his Estate.
Lot 420 § John Anthony Park (1878- 1962) The Harbour, St Ives oil on canvas signed 60 x 75cm Lot 421 £8,000 - 12,000 § John Anthony Park (1878- 1962) Still life of marigolds in a green bowl oil on board signed 29 x 39.5cm £1,000 - 1,500