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Victor Hume Moody:
George Bernard Shaw Writing, 1938
Framed (ref: 5246)
Oil on canvas, 14 1/8 x 11 in. (36 x 28 cm.)

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Exhibited: Goupil Gallery,1939; Harris Museum & Art Gallery Preston, 1993

The playwright eventually allowed Moody to paint this study for the Malvern Festival group portrait in 1938 but on his arrival Shaw told him, ‘I’m afraid I shall not be able to sit – Mussolini has let me down. I had counted on him not persecuting the Jews. This morning’s paper tells me he has done so and I must re-write the last act of Geneva in time for the cast to learn it for tonight’s performance.’