Shaw, George Bernard. (1856-1950). Original Barechested Photograph at age 93!. Striking original photograph of the Irish playwright, critic and controversialist on his 93rd birthday in 1949, standing in swim trunks on a small floating pier in Cap d'Antibes, France. In very fine condition. 25.4 x 20.5 cm.
Shaw continued to write into his nineties. His last plays were Buoyant Billions (1947), his final full-length work; Farfetched Fables (1948) a set of six short plays revisiting several of his earlier themes such as evolution; a comic play for puppets,Shakes versus Shav (1949), a ten-minute piece in which Shakespeare and Shaw trade insults; and Why She Would Not (1950), which Shaw described as "a little comedy", written in one week shortly before his ninety-fourth birthday.
Shaw, George Bernard. (1856-1950). Original Barechested Photograph at age 93!. Striking original photograph of the Irish playwright, critic and controversialist on his 93rd birthday in 1949, standing in swim trunks on a small floating pier in Cap d'Antibes, France. In very fine condition. 25.4 x 20.5 cm.
Shaw continued to write into his nineties. His last plays were Buoyant Billions (1947), his final full-length work; Farfetched Fables (1948) a set of six short plays revisiting several of his earlier themes such as evolution; a comic play for puppets,Shakes versus Shav (1949), a ten-minute piece in which Shakespeare and Shaw trade insults; and Why She Would Not (1950), which Shaw described as "a little comedy", written in one week shortly before his ninety-fourth birthday.