Lot 201: SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856-1950, playwright, literary and theatre critic, Fabian)

PORTRAIT BY OLIVE EDIS (1876-1955), vintage photograph, sepia toned platinum print, three-quarter length, seated at his desk, holding his spectacles in his right hand looking up at the camera as if taken unawares, signed by the photographer in pencil under the mount and with her roundel, framed and glazed, size of image 14 x 11 inches (35.5 x 28 cm), overall size 20 x 17 inches [1936]

A different photograph of Shaw by Olive Edis, dated 1936, is in the National Portrait Gallery.