£4,000 - £5,000
�SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956) CIVILISATION AND THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM signed (Max), dated 1924 and inscribed with the title and He "No, my dear, you may have ceased to love me, but you took me for better or wuss in younger and 'appier days, and there'll be no getting away for you from me, ever." pencil and watercolour, 38 x 30cm, laid down on the original washline mount
Provenance: Laurence John Cadbury, OBE, LLD, MA (1889-1982) Chairman of Cadbury Bros; his widow Joyce Cadbury, OBE, LLD, (1906-1988), her executor's sale of the contents of "The Davids" Northfield, Birmingham, James and Lister Lea auctioneers, 17 and 18 November 1988, lot 324 to the present vendor.
Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, 1925 whence purchased by Laurence Cadbury.
In fine condition, in the original narrow oak frame, on the reverse printed and type written labels of the Leicester Galleries and extract from the original exhibition catalogue
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