Autograph postcard signed (initials) to Cyril Bristow, Jr., in Santa Barbara; Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, 17 July 1933
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, small 8vo, in ink on his personal postcard with his printed address. Item #409495
Apparently Bristow has written to Shaw seeking his advice about a career as an artist. Shaw responds: "You had better take your drawing seriously and make it your profession. Until you have done so and made yourself a master of it nobody will take the smallest interest in it or in you; and your assumption to the contrary will only make you appear a young
FOOL
of this size or thereabouts ["FOOL" actually takes up a third of the page!]. Get to work and don't be an idiot." (BA).
Price: $2,500.00
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