Max Beerbohm
‘Draughting A Bill At The Board Of Trade’ (‘Mr Churchill: “Oh, I Understand All These Figures, Right Enough. What We’Ve Got To Do, Gentlemen, Is To Put Some - Er - Humanising Ginger Into ’Em”’)
Found at
Sothebys,
London
The Political Cartoon Collection of Jeffrey Archer, Lot 39
14. Mar - 14. Mar 2018
The Political Cartoon Collection of Jeffrey Archer, Lot 39
14. Mar - 14. Mar 2018
Estimate: 5.000 - 7.000 GBP
Price realised: 27.500 GBP
Price realised: 27.500 GBP
Description
Max Beerbohm
‘DRAUGHTING A BILL AT THE BOARD OF TRADE’ (‘MR CHURCHILL: “OH, I UNDERSTAND ALL THESE FIGURES, RIGHT ENOUGH. WHAT WE’VE GOT TO DO, GENTLEMEN, IS TO PUT SOME - ER - HUMANISING GINGER INTO ’EM”’)
322 by 403mm., pen ink and watercolour, signed and dated 1909, inscribed with title, mounted together with extracts from the 1957 Leicester Galleries exhibition catalogue, framed and glazed
From The Collection of Winston Churchill | EXHIBITED: | ‘The Scottish Fine Arts And Print Club Loan’, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, 1937; ‘Max In Retrospect’, Leicester Galleries, May 1952, no 81; ‘Sir Max Beerbohm. A Memorial Exhibition’, Leicester Galleries, June 1957, no 145 ('lent by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H., D.L.'); ‘The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-1997’, Chri
‘DRAUGHTING A BILL AT THE BOARD OF TRADE’ (‘MR CHURCHILL: “OH, I UNDERSTAND ALL THESE FIGURES, RIGHT ENOUGH. WHAT WE’VE GOT TO DO, GENTLEMEN, IS TO PUT SOME - ER - HUMANISING GINGER INTO ’EM”’)
322 by 403mm., pen ink and watercolour, signed and dated 1909, inscribed with title, mounted together with extracts from the 1957 Leicester Galleries exhibition catalogue, framed and glazed
From The Collection of Winston Churchill | EXHIBITED: | ‘The Scottish Fine Arts And Print Club Loan’, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, 1937; ‘Max In Retrospect’, Leicester Galleries, May 1952, no 81; ‘Sir Max Beerbohm. A Memorial Exhibition’, Leicester Galleries, June 1957, no 145 ('lent by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H., D.L.'); ‘The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-1997’, Chri
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
The work ‘Draughting A Bill At The Board Of Trade’ (‘Mr Churchill: “Oh, I Understand All These Figures, Right Enough. What We’Ve Got To Do, Gentlemen, Is To Put Some - Er - Humanising Ginger Into ’Em”’) by Max Beerbohm was worth GBP 27,500.00 (€ 31,310.27) to a buyer in March 2018. This price was achieved in the auction The Political Cartoon Collection of Jeffrey Archer at Sothebys in London and exceeded the previously set upper estimate of GBP 7,000.00 many times over. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Max Beerbohm; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot 'Mr Churchill' sold at auction in March 2018 with the realized price of GBP 47,500.00 (€ 54,081.37).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Die Arbeit ‘Draughting A Bill At The Board Of Trade’ (‘Mr Churchill: “Oh, I Understand All These Figures, Right Enough. What We’Ve Got To Do, Gentlemen, Is To Put Some - Er - Humanising Ginger Into ’Em”’) von Max Beerbohm war einem Käufer im März 2018 GBP 27.500,00 (€ 31.310,27) wert. Dieser Preise wurde in der Auktion The Political Cartoon Collection of Jeffrey Archer bei Sothebys in London erzielt und übertraf den zuvor angesetzten oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 7.000,00 um ein Vielfaches. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Max Beerbohm; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit 'Mr Churchill' im März 2018 mit dem Hammerpreis von GBP 47.500,00 (€ 54.081,37).
Max Beerbohm - Auction history
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