Full-length caricature portrait of British caricaturist and writer Max Beerbohm. Beerbohm holds a top hat in his left hand and a cane in his right hand as he enters a room of men at the New English Art Club.
Content: Signed and dated "Max 1909," in pencil in upper right corner.
Content: Title written in pencil in Beerbohm's hand in upper left corner.
Content: Exhibited at the New English Art Club, London, 1909; article on the drawing appeared in the London Daily Mail, May 22, 1909.
Content: "Max, exquisitely dressed, stands among a shabby crowd of lay-figure artists. A bust of Wilson Steer over the door. This is the earliest known drawing in which Max has a moustache."--From Rupert Hart-Davis's A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm (London: Macmillan, 1972), p. 130, no. 1434.
Content: "Beerbohm executed other caricatures of the N.E.A.C. in 1906 and 1907 which featured Sickert, Orpen, Conder, John, MacColl, Tonks, William Rothenstein, Roger Fry, L.A. Harrison, Walter Russell, and Albert Rutherston, with Conder and Fry being replaced in the second version by Wilfrid de Glehn and Sargent."--From Sotheby's catalog, Modern British Art, June 21, 2000, lot 14.
Ownership: Formerly owned by Sir Anthony Hooper, Bart. Sold by Sotheby's (London) on June 21, 2000. Donated to the Berg Collection, December 7, 2011.
Ownership: From the collection of John D. and Paul L. Herring
