Prints: P1109

Title

Mr. Noel Coward

Subject

Coward, Noël (Sir)

Artist

Beerbohm, Max (Sir)

Date

1931

Dimensions

height (mount): 40cm
width (mount): 28.8cm
height: 33.5cm
width: 23cm

Other materials

Colour lithograph

Inscription/signature

"Mr. Noel Coward / Max"

Provenance

The print originally belonged to actor and Garrick member Moray Watson and was given to the Club by Peter Miall, June 2024.

Other number

E0152

Colour lithograph print of Mr. Noel Coward who wrote the three-act operetta 'Bitter Sweet' (1929). The print is from 'Heroes and Heroines of "Bitter Sweet"'' by Max Beerbohm, which contains four other colour plates depicting the play's cast. Charles Cochran produced it at Her Majesty's Theatre, London where it ran for 967 performances and then in 1933, it was made into a film version. The print depicts Coward in a fur-lined black-belted jacket, gloves, and holding a cigarette in his right hand. It features an Art Deco design as the backdrop with spotlights and lightning bolts.