‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Wonderful man, Mr Kipling

Inscribed "Wonderful man, Mr Kipling

" (to mount)

Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper

10.6 x 13.7cm

Unframed

Provenance:

Siegfried Sassoon;

And by family descent

This work depicts Rudyard Kipling, George V and Queen Mary playing cricket. Kipling is the subject of several of Sassoon's caricatures and is mocked for his perceived imperialist views.