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Who is Max Beerbohm?

Self-Portrait (undated)

Signed (twice): Max. Full-length in profile turned to his left, a stick in his left hand, a cigarette dangling from his right, a top hat on the ground to his right.

Max starting drawing his friend George Moore in the early 1890s and continued until 1955; by then he had drawn Moore more than any other subject. View the series elsewhere in this Iconography.

In addition to drawing, Max wrote a precious memoir of his old friend in The Atlantic, December 1950: “I am sure there never was in heaven or on earth any one at all like him.”

Moore sometimes compared Max’s caricatures to his own literary portraits of contemporaries, all somehow scathing and affectionate at the same time.

Number 1428 in the Hart-Davis Catalogue. Present whereabouts unknown.