“WISHING YOU A PRIM CHRISTMAS AND A PRIGGISH NEW YEAR” 18. Original Christmas Card With A Portrait Of T. S. Eliot SASSOON, Siegfried
An original Christmas card design hand drawn and painted by Siegfried Sassoon. To the front he has drawn a portrait of T. S. Eliot in clerical robes. Inside the ‘greeting’ is written in red and blue ink and reads, “Wishing you a prim Xmas and a priggish New Year. From Pastor T. Stearns Eliot. Modernist Tabernacle. Boston. Mass.” Under this inscription, Sassoon has pasted a clipped signature of T. S. Eliot. In very good condition. [42469] £3,750 An exemplary caricature of T. S. Eliot by Siegfried Sassoon.
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