George B. Shaw Paintings & Artwork for Sale | George B. Shaw Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 02, 2024
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), a signed postcard…
Est: £200 - £300
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), a signed postcard, dated 2nd December 1918, addressed to J. O. Roberts of 61 Collingwood St., Northampton, bearing the following message: "Please note that my address at Birmingham on the 10th will be the Midland Hotel, not the Queens, as I said in my formal card", with franked George V red one penny stamp, 8.8 x 12.8cm
Roseberys
Dec. 15, 2023
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Typescript, with autograph revisions, of T
Est: £1,500 - £2,500
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Typescript, with autograph revisions, of Trotsky, Prince of Pamphleteers,...
Christie's
Jul. 13, 2023
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950)
Est: €8,000 - €10,000
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. An exceptional A.L.S., G. Bernard Shaw, two pages, 8vo, written to the first and last pages, Fitzroy Square, London, 1st February 1895, to [William] Heinemann. Shaw commences his interesting letter stating 'You have no doubt seen how ruthlessly I have used you and [Sydney] Olivier & your play & his play to feed the flame that must eventually consume the censor. Why on earth did you suddenly drop bang into a mere kodaking of blackguardism? You can't have started with that idea' and continues to observe 'However, you were in a certain way right; for in those scenes in the last two acts your imaginative grip closed unmistakeably on your material & realized it forcibly. But I protest against the honors of tragedy being given to a squalid little business like that. Why not compress these three acts into one act - or rather prologue - positing the problem of a young woman who has married a man whom she believes to be a genius and is left disillusioned at the end with life before her - that is, with the play before her? That is what you have really struck out, and this calling the first step of it ''a dramatic moment'', and stitching it up in green covers at [John] Lane's is all nonsense - a selling of your birthright. What the audience want to know is how the woman got out of it - what the solution of the problem is', further offering his typically forthright advice, 'It is not enough for you to cut a slice of life - anyone can do that who can write or imagine at all - you must eat the slice, digest it, & build it up into a living organism. That's the meaning of creation in art. If you doubt me, ask ''her whose interest & enthusiasm inspired this effort'', and if she is the right sort of woman, as I hope with all my heart for your sake she is, she will say yes and tell you that you must follow The First Step to the end of the journey. Outside the most lighthearted comedy, there must be no happy endings; but there must be no unhappy endings at all: there must be great endings, or hopeful, or right endings; but happiness & unhappiness are the positive & negative ends of life only with fools. Plenty of people are giving up the happy ending only to substitute the negative for the positive form of it & offer unhappy endings, which are equally unconvincing & much less pleasant'. Shaw concludes his letter making a reference to his own work, 'My play is not typed yet. When it is, you shall read it if I can get a copy disengaged before it reaches the stage, concerning which, by the way, nothing is yet settled'. A letter of magnificent literary content in which Shaw provides a masterful lesson in writing and offers his opinions on the difference between a true playwright and a gifted amateur. Some light overall age toning and a few light, minor creases, about VG William Heinemann (1863-1920) English publisher, the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London which represented authors including H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling. Heinemann's 'modern' play The First Step: A Dramatic Moment, discussed in the present letter, was published by John Lane in 1895 and in a note within the publication the author observes that it was not his objective to write anything that 'would satisfy the usual requirements of a stage play….but simply to snatch one dramatic moment out of a story of today'. From 1895-98 Shaw was the theatre critic for The Saturday Review and the opening lines of the present letter evidently refer to a review of The First Step which Shaw had published. Sydney Olivier (1859-1943) 1st Baron Olivier. British civil servant, a Fabian and member of the Labour Party. Olivier was recognised as one of the 'Big Four' within the Fabian movement in London, alongside Shaw, Sidney Webb and Graham Wallas. The uncle of actor Laurence Olivier, Sydney Olivier was a writer throughout his life, attempting poetry although faring better with a few plays, which were first performed at the Fabian Society, and a Fabian paper on Emile Zola (1890). Shaw was working on two plays in 1895, The Man of Destiny, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon, and the four-act play You Never Can Tell, although neither were performed or published until several years later.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Jul. 12, 2023
SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Autograph letter signed (with initials, '
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Autograph letter signed (with initials, 'G.B.S.') to Ellen [Terry], Wyndham...
Christie's
Jun. 03, 2023
G.B. SHAW: Framed Group of Likenesses (7)
Est: $200 - $400
George Bernard Shaw (Irish, 1856-1950) various framed works on paper depicting the renowned author and literary critic, together with a needlepoint; some bearing signatures. [Largest frame: 41 1/2" H x 25 1/2" W]. Toning, marks; wear to frames.
Roland Auctions NY
Jun. 03, 2023
G.B. SHAW: Framed Group of Ephemera (6)
Est: $150 - $350
George Bernard Shaw (Irish, 1856-1950) various framed likenesses of the renowned author and literary critic, including 3 Vanity Fair Supplement pages and performance information. [Largest frame: 20 1/2" H x 14 1/4" W]. Some with toning; wear to frames.
Roland Auctions NY
Mar. 15, 2023
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950)
Est: €8,000 - €10,000
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. An exceptional A.L.S., G. Bernard Shaw, two pages, 8vo, written to the first and last pages, Fitzroy Square, London, 1st February 1895, to [William] Heinemann. Shaw commences his interesting letter stating 'You have no doubt seen how ruthlessly I have used you and [Sydney] Olivier & your play & his play to feed the flame that must eventually consume the censor. Why on earth did you suddenly drop bang into a mere kodaking of blackguardism? You can't have started with that idea' and continues to observe 'However, you were in a certain way right; for in those scenes in the last two acts your imaginative grip closed unmistakeably on your material & realized it forcibly. But I protest against the honors of tragedy being given to a squalid little business like that. Why not compress these three acts into one act - or rather prologue - positing the problem of a young woman who has married a man whom she believes to be a genius and is left disillusioned at the end with life before her - that is, with the play before her? That is what you have really struck out, and this calling the first step of it ''a dramatic moment'', and stitching it up in green covers at [John] Lane's is all nonsense - a selling of your birthright. What the audience want to know is how the woman got out of it - what the solution of the problem is', further offering his typically forthright advice, 'It is not enough for you to cut a slice of life - anyone can do that who can write or imagine at all - you must eat the slice, digest it, & build it up into a living organism. That's the meaning of creation in art. If you doubt me, ask ''her whose interest & enthusiasm inspired this effort'', and if she is the right sort of woman, as I hope with all my heart for your sake she is, she will say yes and tell you that you must follow The First Step to the end of the journey. Outside the most lighthearted comedy, there must be no happy endings; but there must be no unhappy endings at all: there must be great endings, or hopeful, or right endings; but happiness & unhappiness are the positive & negative ends of life only with fools. Plenty of people are giving up the happy ending only to substitute the negative for the positive form of it & offer unhappy endings, which are equally unconvincing & much less pleasant'. Shaw concludes his letter making a reference to his own work, 'My play is not typed yet. When it is, you shall read it if I can get a copy disengaged before it reaches the stage, concerning which, by the way, nothing is yet settled'. A letter of magnificent literary content in which Shaw provides a masterful lesson in writing and offers his opinions on the difference between a true playwright and a gifted amateur. Some light overall age toning and a few light, minor creases, about VG William Heinemann (1863-1920) English publisher, the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London which represented authors including H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling. Heinemann's 'modern' play The First Step: A Dramatic Moment, discussed in the present letter, was published by John Lane in 1895 and in a note within the publication the author observes that it was not his objective to write anything that 'would satisfy the usual requirements of a stage play….but simply to snatch one dramatic moment out of a story of today'. From 1895-98 Shaw was the theatre critic for The Saturday Review and the opening lines of the present letter evidently refer to a review of The First Step which Shaw had published. Sydney Olivier (1859-1943) 1st Baron Olivier. British civil servant, a Fabian and member of the Labour Party. Olivier was recognised as one of the 'Big Four' within the Fabian movement in London, alongside Shaw, Sidney Webb and Graham Wallas. The uncle of actor Laurence Olivier, Sydney Olivier was a writer throughout his life, attempting poetry although faring better with a few plays, which were first performed at the Fabian Society, and a Fabian paper on Emile Zola (1890). Shaw was working on two plays in 1895, The Man of Destiny, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon, and the four-act play You Never Can Tell, although neither were performed or published until several years later.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Nov. 24, 2022
Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Photograph Signed, [1893]
Est: £200 - £300
Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Photograph Signed, [1893] * Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Irish playwright and critic. Photograph Signed, G. Bernard Shaw, by W. & D. Downey, [1893], carbon print, three-quarter length, 139 x 93 mm, signed in ink with additional inscription on original mount between foot of image and imprint details, G. Bernard Shaw / Sixty years after, some overall creasing affecting image and mount, overall 22 x 18 cm QTY: (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
May. 22, 2022
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950), Signed and inscribed pasted photograph, inscription reads "I think this is intended for me, but I have no recollection of posing for it" dated 8th February 1930…
Est: $400 - $600
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950), Signed and inscribed pasted photograph, inscription reads "I think this is intended for me, but I have no recollection of posing for it" dated 8th February 1930 He was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond, frame size approx 33cm x 24cm. Ex Einfeld Collection.
Vickers & Hoad
May. 06, 2022
GEORGE B SHAW SUBJECT LINOCUT PRINT ARTIST SIGNED STEFAN MROZEWSKI
Est: $200 - $400
This is a signed linocut print featuring playwright George Bernard Shaw (Irish, 1856-1950). Signed by the artist Stefan Mrozewki (Polish, 1894-1975) and dated for 1935. Framed under glass. The frame is 18 5/8 x 14 3/8". The mat sight is 12 x 7 3/4".
Mark Lawson Antiques, Inc.
Apr. 06, 2022
* Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Autograph Notecard Initialed, G.B.S.
Est: £150 - £200
* Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Autograph Notecard Initialed, G.B.S. Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. Autograph Notecard Initialed, G.B.S., Ayot St Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 15 January 1930, to F.H. Sunderland, in full: I daresay it is pretty bad. This method of civilizing hillmen has been practised vigorously as long as I can remember: primitive expeditions is the official term. Nobody, as far as I am aware, has ever taken the smallest notice of my allusions to them. If missionary work is left to British officers, what are they to do, except their job, which is shooting?, on printed personal stationery notecard, address to verso in Shaws hand, stamped and postmarked, 115 x 90mm Qty: (1) Footnote: The recipient of this intriguing and typically pithy message was the British genealogist Frederick Harold Sunderland (died 1954) of Howden, Yorkshire. Clearly it is a response to Sunderland who was seemingly soliciting Shaws thoughts about missionary work.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Dec. 16, 2021
Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Typewritten article, annotated, signed and dated
Est: £300 - £400
Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Typewritten article, annotated, signed and dated * Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950). Irish playwright. Typewritten article, annotated, signed and dated, [Welwyn, Hertfordshire], G. Bernard Shaw, 31st March 1948, being an article entitled 'The Malvern Festival', which was sent by Shaw to the Malvern Gazette for publication, in which he laments the possibility that the Festival may well end and heavily rebukes those he feels are responsible, A cultural institution like the [Malvern] Festival must take as its first rule NO POLITICS. But the moment it comes on the rates it is attacked by all the organisations of that Philistine section of the public Great religious and artistic institutions are not founded by Ratepayers Associations The Malvern Festival was not founded by ratepayers. It was founded by Sir Barry Jackson out of his own pocket. It was a great successFor me the Festival Theatre is like the Priory: a place where two or three are gathered together... Close either of them, and Malvern will soon feel the loss to the spiritual life of their loveliest plot of English soil. The Festival cannot be moved Wake up, Malvern', ink on blue paper, light paperclip mark on both pages, neither touching text or signature, 2 pages, 4to, together with an unusual printed postcard from Shaw with date and address in his hand, Ayot St Lawrence, 8 March 1949, to Edwin Gough, Shaw providing the recipient with a printed list of things that he is unwilling or unable to do and places a hand-written arrow either side of the printed request that 'He cannot receive visitors at his private residence except from his intimate friends', plus 2 original (unsigned) Malvern Festival Programmes for 1929 and 1930 (the former devoting its entire 2 weeks to performances of plays by Shaw), and 2 Post Office telegrams, one from Shaw, the second mentioning him Qty: (6) Footnote: The Malvern Festival was founded in 1929 by Sir Barry Jackson (1879-1961). George Bernard Shaw wrote many plays especially for it and had 5 premières there. Sir Edward Elgar, Shaws great friend, attended a number of the Festivals up until his death in 1934. It is interesting to see, even at the age of 92, that Shaw had not lost his capacity for forthright criticism and caustic observation.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Dec. 02, 2021
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950)
Est: €200 - €300
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. Book signed and inscribed, being a softcover edition of The Man of Destiny: A Trifle, published by Constable and Company Ltd., London, 1927, as Volume VI of The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, signed in fountain pen ink to the half title page, 'To Stanley Prince from Bernard Shaw' and dated Plymouth, 14th October 1929 in his hand. Original printed paper wrappers (some age wear and small areas of paper loss to the spine). Some foxing and minor staining throughout, G George Bernard Shaw opened Shopping Week on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce at Plymouth on 15th October 1929, the day after signing the present volume. The Man of Destiny was originally published in 1897 and is a play set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon Bonaparte.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Dec. 02, 2021
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950)
Est: €150 - €200
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A good A.N., unsigned, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1929/30?). At the head of the page appears a series of typed questions submitted to Shaw, in full, 'Would you say that Remarque's book ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' has helped to discourage future wars? Why or why not? Can you think of any other war book or war play to which your remarks might apply?' Shaw has responded beneath, stating, in full, 'I have not read All Quiet. If books could stop war we should not have had one for the last thousand years.' About EX Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, describing the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during World War I, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front was first published in a German newspaper in November & December 1928 and in book form in January 1929.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Oct. 15, 2021
GREGYNOG PRESS. SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. 1856-1950. Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany. Newton: 1939.
Est: $400 - $600
GREGYNOG PRESS. SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. 1856-1950. Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany. Newton: 1939. 8vo (255 x 180 mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece by John Farleigh. Publisher's dark green morocco with abstract design of author's initials onlaid in orange morocco, spine with raised band and onlay and lettered in orange, by the Gregynog Bindery and designed by PAUL NASH, uncut, head of spine chipped and extremities rubbed, fore-edge of preliminary leaves chipped, small stains to lower margin first few text leaves. LIMITED EDITION, number 152 OF 300 copies. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
May. 19, 2021
Shaw, George Bernard. (1856-1950): Original Photograph
Est: $150 - $200
Original 8 x 10 inch photograph of the important Irish playwright and music critic. An unusual image of Shaw with his walking stick slung over his shoulder, contemplating a small statue of a lamb. Verso news clipping ("Literature's 'Lion' and the Lamb") reads in part: "Welwyn, Eng. Hand on hip, George Bernard Shaw, who at ninety is still the greatest figure in English letters, contemplates the statue of a lamb in the grounds of Ayot St. Lawrence, his home at Welwy, Herefordshire. A vociferous vegetarian, he hopes to have sheep and cattle at his funeral, wearing white scarves in honor of the man who refused to eat his fellow creatures."
Schubertiade
Dec. 02, 2020
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950)
Est: €300 - €400
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A good A.L.S., with his initials GBS, on one side of a correspondence card, Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 21st February 1923, to Kenneth Richmond in Cornwall. Shaw writes, in full, ‘Hampstead is the most hopelessly Philistine suburb in England. Nothing artistic ever succeeds there. No inhabitant has ever been known to cross the threshold of the Everyman Theatre, except Elgar; and he no longer lives there’. Hand addressed by Shaw to the verso. One very slight, minor crease, otherwise VG Edward Elgar (1857-1934) English Composer who lived in Hampstead from 1912-20.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Aug. 15, 2019
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A.N.S., with his initials GBS, on one side of his personal printed oblong 12mo compliments card, Whitehall Court, London, 19th March 1938. Shaw writes, in ful
Est: £80 - £120
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A.N.S., with his initials GBS, on one side of his personal printed oblong 12mo compliments card, Whitehall Court, London, 19th March 1938. Shaw writes, in full, 'This cancels the question in my other letter'. VG
International Autograph Auctions
Jul. 20, 2019
George Bernard Shaw Signed First Edition, 1932
Est: $800 - $1,200
George Bernard Shaw (Irish, 1856-1950) First Edition Presentation Copy of "The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God". Inscribed on title page "To Sydney Cockerell From Bernard Shaw. 13th Dec. 1932." Designed and Engraved byJohn Farleigh. Printed by Clarks in Edinburgh, and Published for the First Time by Constable and Company Limited of Orange Street in London 1932. Book measures 8-1/4" in length with width of 5-1/2" and depth 1/4". In overall very goodcondition with slight chips to one lower spine corner and to cover corners. Hinges and pages are good. All sales are subject to Bremo Auctions Terms & Conditions. Please review before bidding.
Bremo Auctions
Feb. 21, 2019
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A.L.S., G. Bernard Shaw, on one side of his correspondence card, Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 9th June 1931, to Havelock Ellis. Shaw writes, in full, 'In 1917 I reviewed a book on Herbert Spencer by Hugh Elliot. On looking through it for inclusion in my collected works I find that it contains not a single mention of Elliot's name, all my remarks being addressed to Havelock Ellis. Can you explain this? Did you contribute a preface? Is there any reason why my head should have been so full of you at that moment that the initials H.E. set me babbling your name, and that Elliot did not protest nor the publishers send a correction? Scrawl me a card about it to 4 Whitehall Court S.W.1.' Hand addressed by Shaw to the verso. A letter of interesting content and good association. About EX Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) English Physician, Writer, Intellectual & Social Reformer who studied human sexuality. Hugh S. R. Elliot (1881-1930) English Science Writer whose publications included Herbert Spencer, a biography of the Victorian English philosopher, biologist and political theorist which was published by Constable & Company Ltd. in 1917 as part of their Makers of the Nineteenth Century series edited by Basil Williams.
Est: £200 - £300
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A.L.S., G. Bernard Shaw, on one side of his correspondence card, Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 9th June 1931, to Havelock Ellis. Shaw writes, in full, 'In 1917 I reviewed a book on Herbert Spencer by Hugh Elliot. On looking through it for inclusion in my collected works I find that it contains not a single mention of Elliot's name, all my remarks being addressed to Havelock Ellis. Can you explain this? Did you contribute a preface? Is there any reason why my head should have been so full of you at that moment that the initials H.E. set me babbling your name, and that Elliot did not protest nor the publishers send a correction? Scrawl me a card about it to 4 Whitehall Court S.W.1.' Hand addressed by Shaw to the verso. A letter of interesting content and good association. About EX Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) English Physician, Writer, Intellectual & Social Reformer who studied human sexuality. Hugh S. R. Elliot (1881-1930) English Science Writer whose publications included Herbert Spencer, a biography of the Victorian English philosopher, biologist and political theorist which was published by Constable & Company Ltd. in 1917 as part of their Makers of the Nineteenth Century series edited by Basil Williams.
International Autograph Auctions
Dec. 17, 2018
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A printed 4to souvenir programme for Plays by Bernard Shaw performed at the Malvern Theatre during the first Malvern Festival, 19th - 31st August 1929, signed by Shaw in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to the lower border of an inside page featuring an image of the playwright, and further signed to the inside pages by over 30 actors, actresses and various other individuals associated with the festival, including Barry Jackson (theatre director and founder, along with Shaw, of the Malvern Festival), H. K. Ayliff (theatre director), Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evans (very weak signature), Eileen Beldon, Charles Carson, Scott Sunderland, Barbara Everest, James Carew, Matthew Boulton, Aubrey Mallalieu, Daphne Heard, Henry Wilcoxon (signed as Harry Wilcoxon), Hugh Moxey etc. All have signed in fountain pen inks with their names alone alongside their portraits to inside pages, some of the signatures being bolder than others. Some light overall age wear and dust staining to the front and back covers of the paper wrappers and title page. G
Est: £200 - £300
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A printed 4to souvenir programme for Plays by Bernard Shaw performed at the Malvern Theatre during the first Malvern Festival, 19th - 31st August 1929, signed by Shaw in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to the lower border of an inside page featuring an image of the playwright, and further signed to the inside pages by over 30 actors, actresses and various other individuals associated with the festival, including Barry Jackson (theatre director and founder, along with Shaw, of the Malvern Festival), H. K. Ayliff (theatre director), Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evans (very weak signature), Eileen Beldon, Charles Carson, Scott Sunderland, Barbara Everest, James Carew, Matthew Boulton, Aubrey Mallalieu, Daphne Heard, Henry Wilcoxon (signed as Harry Wilcoxon), Hugh Moxey etc. All have signed in fountain pen inks with their names alone alongside their portraits to inside pages, some of the signatures being bolder than others. Some light overall age wear and dust staining to the front and back covers of the paper wrappers and title page. G
International Autograph Auctions
Feb. 03, 2018
1950 (31 May) Signed letter from George Bernard Shaw regarding the sale of Torca Cottage, his former home in Dalkey.
Est: €250 - €350
1950 (31 May) Signed letter from George Bernard Shaw regarding the sale of Torca Cottage, his former home in Dalkey. A one-page typed letter in which Shaw thanks Mr Sweeny, an auctioneer, for notifying him of the impending sale of Shaw's former home, Tolka Cottage. Shaw writes that 'if the next tenant will only leave my inscription on the wall I shall be well pleased, and wish him many happy days in that lovely spot.' He then points out that the correct address is Dalkey, not Killiney, massaging district boundaries was established practice even in 1950, it seems.
Whyte's
Oct. 10, 2017
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856–1950) and A Self-Portrait, 1904 titled, dated and
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856–1950) and A Self-Portrait, 1904 titled, dated and annotated 'Printed and mounted by F.H. Evans' by Evans in ink (tertiary mount, verso) image/sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 in. (14 x 7.6 cm.) primary mount: 6 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. (15.5 x 9.5 cm.) secondary mount: 6 3/8 x 3 7/8 in. (16.2 x 9.8 cm.) tertiary mount: 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (17.1 x 10.8 cm.)
Christie's