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Preisdatenbank abonnierenPORTMAN NATALIE: (1981- ) Israeli-born American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 2010 for her role as Nina Sayers in Black Swan. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph, a close-up portrait study of the actress. Signed in bold blue ink with her name alone to a light area at the base of the image. VG
HINES EARL 'FATHA': (1903-1983) American jazz pianist. A good vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Hines, the publicity portrait depicting the young musician in a head and shoulders pose smoking a pipe. Photograph by Maurice of Chicago. Signed by Hines in blue fountain pen ink to a light area of the image, 'To Maurice from Earl 'Father' Hines'. Neatly mounted to card, otherwise VG
NICHOLSON JACK: (1937- ) American Actor. Three times Best Actor Academy Award winner. Signed 10 x 8 photograph by Nicholson, the image showing the actor in a close-up portrait pose, in his role as R.P. McMurphy in a scene from Milos Forman´s awarded film One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest (1975), which gave him his first Best Actor Oscar. Signed in bold blue ink to the right clear border of the image. Neatly mounted on card. VG
GRAHAME GLORIA: (1923-1981) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1952 for her role as Rosemary Bartlow in The Bad and the Beautiful. Vintage signed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph, the original RKO Radio Pictures publicity portrait depicting Grahame in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in dark fountain pen ink across a light area of the image. A few very light, extremely minor surface creases, VG
MUNI PAUL: (1895-1967) Austro-Hungarian actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1936 for his role as Dr. Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur. A good vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, the Warner Bros & Vitaphone Pictures publicity portrait depicting Muni in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink to a largely light area of the image. A few very light, extremely minor creases to the corners of the borders, otherwise VG
MILLS JOHN: (1908-2005) English actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1970 for his role as Michael in Ryan’s Daughter. A good vintage signed sepia 7.5 x 10 photograph, the original J. Arthur Rank publicity portrait depicting the young actor in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink to a light area of the background. A few very light, minimal surface and corner creases, VG
ONO YOKO: (1933- ) Japanese singer, songwriter, artist and peace activist, the second wife of John Lennon from 1969-80. Signed and inscribed colour 6 x 4 postcard photograph, the image being a reproduction of the famous and incredibly poignant Annie Leibovitz photograph of Yoko Ono lying supine, wearing dark denim jeans and a long-sleeved black top, as John Lennon, completely naked, curls himself in a fetal position around his wife and tenderly kisses her cheek. Signed by Ono in black ink to a light area of the image, 'To Alain, with love, Yoko' and dated at New York City, 1991, in her hand. One very light. extremely minor surface crease to the image, VGThe present image was captured by American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz with a Polaroid camera in Lennon and Ono's apartment in The Dakota on 8th December 1980 just five hours before the former Beatle was tragically murdered.
FINCH PETER: (1912-1977) English-born Australian actor, posthumous Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1976 for his role as Howard Beale in Network. An excellent signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Finch in a head and shoulders pose in costume as Captain Harris from the American survival drama film The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). Signed by Finch in bold, dark fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background and dated 15th December 1973 in his hand. A scarce and desirable signed portrait of the actor. EXProvenance: The present photograph originates from the collection of Pierre Goulliard, a French gentleman who, for over 50 years, dedicated himself to obtaining in person autographs of British, American and European movie stars, always obtaining the signatures in fountain pen ink.
TAYLOR ELIZABETH: (1932-2011) English actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1960 for her role as Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8 and again in 1966 for her role as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the highly appealing original vintage Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity portrait showing the actress seated in a full-length pose wearing an elegant dress. A white stuffed toy animal doll appears on a cushion at her side. Signed by Taylor in purple ink with her name alone across a light area of the image. VG
LANCASTER BURT: (1913-1994) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1960 for his role as Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry. Signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage Hal Wallis Production publicity portrait by Bud Fraker (and with his credit stamp to the verso) dating from 1947 at which time Lancaster starred in the American film noir crime film Desert Fury in the role of Tom Hanson. Signed by Lancaster in bold black ink to a largely light area at the base of the image. A few very light, extremely minimal surface and corner creases, VG
LENNON JOHN: (1940-1980) English singer and musician, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Ink signature (‘John Lennon’) and date, 1972, in his hand on a slim oblong 12mo slip of pink paper, further annotated with the date 25th June 1972 in pencil in the hand of a collector to the upper right corner. Stapled at the edges to a blue card featuring an irregularly cut circular portrait of Lennon etc. Framed and glazed in a modern black frame to an overall size of 7.5 x 5.5. About VG
COLE NAT KING: (1919-1965) American singer and jazz pianist. Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph by Cole, the General Artists Corporation publicity portrait depicting the musician in a half-length pose. Signed by Cole in blue fountain pen ink to the image, partially across a darker area although legible. VG
MALONE DOROTHY: (1924-2018) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1956 for her role as Marylee Hadley in Written on the Wind. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage publicity portrait depicting the actress reclining in a three-quarter length pose. Photograph by Jack Woods for Warner Bros. and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Malone in bold black ink with her name alone to the centre of the image. Some light, minor surface creasing to the lower right edge and corner, about VG
HAWTREY CHARLES: (1914-1988) English actor and comedian. A good signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Hawtrey in a close-up portrait pose in costume as Private Peter Golightly from the British comedy film Carry On Sergeant (1958). Signed by Hawtrey in black ink to a clear area of the background. Signed photographs of Hawtrey in Carry On roles are scarce and desirable. A couple of very small, minor corner creases to the white borders, VG
COROT JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE: (1796-1875) French landscape and portrait painter. A.N.S., `C Corot´, one page, 12mo, n.p., n.d., to Mr. Brano, in French. Corot states, 'Cher ami, je ne pourrai être chez vous demain vendredi qu´à trois heures…´ (Translation: “Dear friend, I will not be able to be at your home tomorrow Friday until three o'clock…”) Uneven bottom edge. G
[CASABLANCA]: VEIDT CONRAD: (1893-1943) German Actor. Best known for his role as Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942), his last film role. Veidt was a former UFA star in German silent films, who was forced to leave Germany together with his Jewish wife after Nazis came to power in 1933. Unusual signed and inscribed 7 x 8.5 photograph, the attractive image depicting a young Veidt in a head and shoulders portrait pose, in costume in one of his early silent roles. Signed and inscribed in black fountain pen ink to the lower border, also dated 1931 in his hand. VG
MARIE LOUISE DUCHESS OF PARMA: (1791-1847) Austrian Archduchess, the second wife of Napoleon I. Empress of the French 1810-14. A very fine multiple signed L.S., `Marie Louise´, two pages, folio, Palace of St. Cloud, 29th May 1813, to the Emperor Napoleon I, in French. Also signed at the base, above and alongside the Empress, by the Duc de Feltre (1765-1818) in his capacity as Minister of war, and by Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambaceres (1753-1824) in his capacity as Archchancellor of the Empire On the partially printed document of the Ministry of war, with the printed heading "Rapport A Sa Majesté l´Empereur et Roi" (Translation : "Report to His Majesty the Emperor & King"). Marie Louise, as Empress, sends a request to Napoleon referring to a musician of the infantry regiment stating in part `Le nommé Chetiveau, musicien au 22 Régiment d´Infanterie m´a adressé une demande à l´effet d´obtenir l´autorisation de quitter le service. Ce jeune homme expose, et des certificats authentiques contatent que son père avait 5 enfants; que l´aîné sést enrolé volontairement et qu´ensuite il a été employé comme officier de santé dans les colonies, où il a été assassiné par les nègres. Le 2º, aspirant de Marine, a péri en chassant une péniche anglaise après laquelle il a vait été envoyé.... Chetiveau ajoute qu´il est conscrit de 1806, qu´il a fait 3 campagnes en Espagne et au Portugal, qu´au moment où il était appelé à faire partie de l´armée, il allait obtenir un emploi dans les Doaunes qui l´aurait mis à portée d´être utile à son père qui est vieux et infirme et qu íl soutenait avant son départ...´ (Translation: "The man named Chetiveau, musician in the 22nd Infantry Regiment, sent me a request to obtain authorization to leave the service. This young man explains, and presents authentic certificates stating that his father had 5 children; that the eldest enlisted voluntarily and that he was then employed as a health officer in the colonies, where he was assassinated by the Negroes. The 2nd, a midshipman, perished while chasing an English barge after which he was sent.... Chetiveau adds that he was conscripted in 1806, that he served in 3 campaigns in Spain and Portugal, that at the time when he was called to be part of the army, he was going to obtain a job in the Doaunes which would have put him within reach of being useful to his father who is old and infirm and whom he supported before his departure..") paper bearing two large waterwarks, one to each page, the first bearing the Emperor´s profile portrait with the text "Napoleon, Emperuer et Roi", and the second bearing an eagle with the text "Empire Français 1811", and to the With blank integral leaf. Few very small tears to the upper front page edge. Cleanly inlaid. G to VG Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke (1765-1818) Marshal of France in 1816, one of six created under King Louis XVIII from 1815-24. Duc de Feltre and Minister of War under Napoleon. jean Jacques de Cambaceres (1753-1824) French Noble, Lawyer and Statesman during the French Revolution and French Empire. Co-Author of the Napoleonic code, which still is at the base of the French and many other countries civil law.
LANDAU MARTIN: (1928-2017) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for his role as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood. Signed 10 x 8 photograph of Landau in a head and shoulders pose, the Columbia Pictures publicity portrait dating from 1973 at which time Landau starred in the American neo-noir crime thriller film Black Gunn in the role of the mafia caporegime and used-car dealer Russ Capelli. Signed by Landau in bold black fountain pen ink with his name alone to a largely light area at the base of the image. VG
REDGRAVE VANESSA: (1937- ) English actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1977 for her role as Julia in Julia. Signed 10 x 8 photograph of Redgrave in a close-up portrait study from her Oscar winning performance as Julia from the Holocaust drama film Julia. Signed by the actress in black ink with her name alone to a light area of the background. Together with Maggie Smith (1934- ) English actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1978 for her role as Diana Barrie in California Suite. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Smith in a head and shoulders pose with one hand gently raised to her pearl neacklace. Signed in bold blue ink with her name alone to a light area at the base of the image. VG to EX, 2
CHARLES RAY: (1930-2004) American singer, songwriter and pianist. An extremely rare, bold black ink signature ('RAY CHARLES') on an oblong 8vo page removed from an autograph album, and with an inscription in another hand above (which could easily be excised if desired). With an unrelated signature and inscription to the verso alongside a neatly mounted newspaper portrait. VGProvenance: The present signature of Ray Charles originates from an album kept by an employee of the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, and dates from the time of Charles' appearance at the Vienna Jazz Festival held at the State Opera House, 2nd July 1999.
HEFLIN VAN: (1910-1971) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his role as Jeff Hartnett in Johnny Eager. A fine vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of the young actor in a head and shoulders pose. The publicity portrait by Talbot of Broadway was issued to promote Heflin's stage appearance in Casey Jones at the Fulton Theatre under the direction of Elia Kazan. Signed by Heflin in bold dark fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background and dated 31st March 1938 in his hand. About EX
CRAWFORD JOAN: (1905-1977) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1945 for her role as Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity portrait of Crawford in an engaging head and shoulders pose. Signed by the actress in blue ink with her name alone to the image. VG
MALDEN KARL: (1912-2009) American character actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1951 for his role as Harold ‘Mitch’ Mitchell in A Streetcar Named Desire. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage Warner Bros. publicity portrait depicting the actor in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue ink with his name alone to a light area of the background. About EX
HARRISON REX: (1908-1990) English actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1964 for his role as Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. A good signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage Warner Bros. publicity portrait depicting Harrison standing in a full-length pose in costume from his Oscar winning role as the phonetics scholar Professor Higgins in the American musical comedy-drama film My Fair Lady (1964), based on George Bernard Shaw's stage play Pygmalion. Signed by Harrison in bold, dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. VG
SMYTHE REG: (1917-1998) British cartoonist, creator of Andy Capp. A good signed and inscribed 8 x 6 photograph of Smythe in an outdoors head and shoulders pose with a ship and dockyard in the immediate beackground. Signed by Smythe in bold black ink to a light area at the base of the image, 'For Jim - Cheers! from Andy Capp & Reg Smythe'. To a clear area of the upper left corner of the image Smythe has drawn a small black ink head and shoulders portrait of Andy Capp smoking a cigarette. One very slight, minor paperclip indentation only just touches the sketch. VG
LIFAR SERGE: (1905-1986) Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph, the image depicting a sculpture of Lifar in a full-length pose by Akop Gurdjan. Signed by Lifar in bold blue fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background and dated at Geneva, 18th February 1938, in his hand. A couple of minor surface creases to the lower part of the image, otherwise VGAkop Gurdjan (1881-1948) Armenian-born French sculptor who created more than 300 portrait busts including Sergei Rachmaninoff and Ludwig van Beethoven.
BROD MAX: (1884-1968) Austro-Hungarian author, composer and journalist, best remembered as the friend, literary executor and biographer of Franz Kafka. Bold black ink signature ('Max Brod') and one additional word, in German, in his hand to the recto of his personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card, featuring his printed name (lightly struck through in ink) to the centre and address at Untere Augartenstrasse, Vienna, to the base. Unusually the card also features an oval portrait of Brod in a head and shoulders pose. Some light creasing and minor age wear and some heavy traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise about VG
HEMINGWAY MARGAUX: (1954-1996) American actress and supermodel. A rare signed 8 x 10 photograph of the actress in a close-up portrait pose as Christine 'Chris' McCormick from the American rape and revenge thriller film Lipstick (1976) which represented Hemingway's film debut. Signed by Hemingway in purple ink with her name alone to the base of the image. Autographs of the actress are rare as a result of her tragic suicide at the age of 42. About EX
VEIDT CONRAD: (1893-1943) German actor, remembered for his role as Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942). Vintage signed 7 x 9.5 photograph of the actor in a close-up profile portrait pose. Signed in fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image and dated 1936 in his hand. Some very light, minor silvering to the edges of the image, otherwise VG
SIMON & GARFUNKEL: Paul Simon (1941- ) American singer and songwriter. Signed 8 x 10 photograph by Simon, the 1986 Warner Bros. promotional publicity portrait depicting the musician seated in a full-length pose. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink with his name alone to the lower white border; Art Garfunkel (1941- ) American singer, known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Signed 7 x 9.5 photograph of Garfunkel seated in a three-quarter length pose reading the paperback book he holds in one hand. Signed in blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area at the base of the image. A few very light, minimal corner creases, VG, 2
GAUGUIN PAUL: (1848-1903) French Post-Impressionist painter. A rare and very interesting lengthy Autograph Manuscript draft article by Gauguin, four pages, folio, n.p., n.d. [late 1889], in French. The draft article is untiltled, although would later be published as "Huysmans et Redon". Gauguin responds in this article to Huysmans's writing on visual arts, stating in part `Huysmans est un artiste, son mouvement d´impulsion se traduit dans une expulsion en littérature. Beaucoup de peintres voudraient être musiciens ou litérateurs. Lui voudrait être peintre. Il l´aime la peinture. A différentes époques des critiques ont paru de lui.... Depuis il s´est fait un grand changement en lui car il a soif d´art et ne craint pas de marcher sur ses erreurs. Nous l´en félicitons´ (Translation"Huysmans is an artist, his impulse movement translates into an expulsion in literature. Many painters would like to be musicians or men of letters. Huysmans would like to be a painter. He loves painting. At different times critics have appeared about him... Since then a big change has taken place in himself because he is thirsty of art and do not fear to walk on his own errors. we do congratulate him for this") Further Gauguin criticises the terms on which Huysmans has written about Odilon Redon and disputing Huysmans's understanding of other artists ancient and modern including Francesco Bianchi, and referring to Rembrandt and Rapahel, states in part `Je ne vois pas en quoi Odilon Redon fait des monstres - Ce sont des êtres imaginaires. C´est un rêveur, un imaginatif.... Voyez l´oeuvre de Rembrandt de Raphael et quelle relation intime entre tous ses modèles femmes et hommes et son portrait...´ (Translation: "I don't see how you can say that Odilon Redon makes monsters - They are imaginary beings. He is a dreamer, an imaginative.... See the work of Rembrandt, Raphael, and what an intimate relationship between all his female and male models and his portrait..."). Further again, Gauguin refers extensively to Gustave Moreau `...Son mouvement d´impulsion est bienloin du coeur, aussi il aime la richesse des biens matériels...´ (Translation "...His impulsive movement is very far from his heart and he loves the richness of material wealth..." and refers also to Puvis de Chavanne with some unconnected notes at the end `Coco de mer - Coco a deux parties qui s´entrouvent comme le sexe femelle d´où sort un énorme fallus qui va se piquer en terre pour germer. Les habitants l´ont considéré lontemps comme le fruit défendu de l´arbre de la science du mal et du bien´ (Translation "...Coconut in two parts which open like the female genitalia, from which emerges an enormous phallus which embeds itself in the earth to germinate. The inhabitants have long considered it as the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil") An extremely interesting thoughts by Gauguin, saying in differents parts of his manuscript `...Je veux dire par là que le peintre ne opeut illustrer un livre et vice versa. Il peut décorer son livre oui, y ajouter d´autres sensations qui s´y rattachent... De la laideur - Question brûlante et qui est la pierre de touche de notre art moderne et de la critique.... D´un volcan vous en refroidissez la lave et d´un sang bouillonant vous en faites une pierre. Fût-elle un rubis ...mais on veut des rubis et on les vend aux trafiquants de diamants! En somme Gustave Moreau est un beau ciseleur. En revanche Puvis de Chavannes ne vous sourit pas... La simplicité la noblesse ne sont plus d´époque. Que voulez-vous éminent critique d´art, ces gens là seront un jour de leur époque....´ (Translation: "By this I mean that the painter cannot illustrate a book and vice versa. He can decorate his book yes, add other sensations attached to it... Of ugliness - A burning question and which is the touchstone of our modern art and criticism.... Of a volcano you cool the lava and from boiling blood you make a stone. Was it a ruby...but we want rubies and we sell them to diamond traffickers! In short, Gustave Moreau is a great engraver. On the other hand, Puvis de Chavannes does not smile at you... Simplicity and nobility are no longer of the times. What do you want, eminent art critic, these people will one day be of their time...") A letter of excellent contant and association. Extremely small tears to the bottom edge of the second page, otherwise G to VGIn the present letter, Gauguin criticises the art criticism of the "decadent" critic Karl-Joris Huysmans. These typically combative notes, attacking the taste of the great literary champion of the Impressionists, were written when Gauguin was back in Paris after his fraught sojourn with Van Gogh in Arles, and was beginning to turn his mind to Tahiti. At the heart of his argument is the figure of Odilon Redon, who was in fact a friend of both men. Huysmans had written some of the first positive reviews of Redon's art, which had played a vital role in establishing him in the art world. Both Redon and Gauguin had exhibited in the 8th Impressionist exhibition of 1886, and by the late 1880s Redon was one of the few artistic contemporaries of whom Gauguin spoke with unambiguous respect. Gauguin is responding to a chapter of Huysmans's "Certains" on Redon entitled "Le Monstre" (1889). To Huysmans, Redon was an artist of fantasy, creating distorted monsters to express modernity - a visual equivalent of contemporary decadent and symbolist literature. Gauguin refutes this, claiming that Redon's imagination is an expression of nature. This article was dated by Guérin, who notes that it was first published in Les Nouvelles littéraires, 7th May 1953. Interestingly, the manuscript shows significant differences from the published text, with a number of important sentences silently omitted or re-ordered. Karl-Joris Huysmans (1848-1907) French Novelist and art Critic. A founding member of the Academy Goncourt and an early advocate of Impressionism.Odilon Redon (1840-1916) French Painter. Best known for his Dreamlike works inspired by Japanese art.Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) French artist, an important figure in the Symbolist movement.Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) French painter.
DENNIS SANDY: (1937-1992) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1966 for her role as Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of Dennis in a head and shoulders pose, the portrait issued at the time of her appearance as Jill Banford in the Canadian drama film The Fox (1967), loosely based on D. H. Lawrence's novella of the same name. Signed by the actress in bold blue fountain pen ink with her name alone to the centre of the image, her surname running across a slightly darker area. Some light surface and corner creasing to the left and with a small tear to the left white border (repaired with old sellotape to the verso). G
HAYES HELEN: (1900-1993) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1931/32 for her role as Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage publicity portrait depicting Hayes in a charming head and shoulders pose. Signed ('Sincerely, Helen Hayes') in bold black ink to a clear area of the background. A couple of very light, extremely minor creases to the corners of the borders, VG
RADNER GILDA: (1946-1989) American actress and comedian, famous for her performances on Saturday Night Live. A scarce signed 8 x 10 photograph of Radner in a smiling head and shoulders pose, being a publicity portrait for her appearance in the American comedy horror film Haunted Honeymoon (1986). Signed by Radner in green ink with her name alone to a clear area of the image. One very light, extremely minor corner crease, VG
RAY MAN: (1890-1976) American visual artist, a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements and a renowned pioneering fashion and portrait photographer. Vintage signed 9 x 13 lithograph by Man Ray, the abstract design printed in bistre on handmade Pescia paper and issued as one of ten lithographs by the artist in a limited edition of 49 to accompany Arturo Schwarz's volume of poems Il Reale Assoluto, which also included two lithographs by Marcel Duchamp and was published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1964. Signed by Man Ray in pencil with his name alone to the base of the image. One very slight, minor crease to the upper left corner, otherwise about EX
SARGENT JOHN SINGER: (1856-1925) American artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation. A.L.S., John S. Sargent, to two sides of his correspondence card, Tite Street, Chelsea, 17th December n.y., to Mr. Westacott. Sargent commences his letter stating 'I have lost the card of the gentleman who asked me in your office to recommend a miniaturist, and I must beg you to be so kind as to give him the following name: Mrs. Eastman', further providing her address in West Kensington and remarking 'I have made enquiries of several artists, but only one of them could name any miniaturist. He said that this lady had given satisfaction to some one he knew'. VG
REDDY NEELAM SANJIVA: (1913-1996) Indian Politician who served as the sixth President of India 1977-82. A long political career in the independence movement. Signed 4.5 x 6 photograph by Reddy, the image being a close-up portrait pose of the President of India. Signed `N.Sanjivah Reddy´ in bold dark ink. VG
STEADMAN RALPH: (1936- ) British illustrator, best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. An extensive correspondence collection of forty-two A.Ls.S. (the majority to the versos of postcards, many featuring images of Steadman's work) and nine T.Ls.S., Ralph, sixty-six pages (total), 4to and smaller, various places (Maidstone, Kent, France and Italy), March 1980 - January 1997, all to Tom Maschler. The substantial, and often amusing, correspondence covers a wide range of subjects, including Steadman's work, in part, 'Many thanks for your letter and your marvellous enthusiasm. I am very happy that Cape & your good self are prepared to take me on with a project that hardly has any bones yet.....I doubt if I will begin Leonardo for 2 or 3 months but that does not prevent me reading about my subject and making notes which is how I set about the book on Freud' (18th March 1980), 'It's fascinating sitting in spots where the old boy [Leonardo da Vinci] might have sat. I was unable to lie on his bed or use the secret tunnel used by Francois I to visit him daily' (25th April 1981), ' "Bloody good!!" he said when he caught sight of the first drawing. "How many more are there?" "How many do you want?" "That depends" "On what?" "How many disciples turn up - can you manage another eleven - No problem' (31st August 1982), 'If he can sell 5000 copies there must be another 50,000 who would buy it if they only knew about it - at least. There is a huge army of committed fans over there [America] but I don't think they know the book exists. All I know is when I did a signing the queue went down the street - New York & West coast. Maybe they were all my fans and there aren't any more but do you believe that. Anyway, one of these days we'll blast through the bullet proof barrier & wonder why we worried' (21st December 1984), 'When Glasgow Art Gallery asked for copies of "I Leonardo" to sell during the course of my exhibition there, they were informed that you are now completely out of the 2nd edition. Surely it is worth a reprint even for this country only' (3rd May 1985), '...[I] have been asked to front a T.V. show on our attitudes to animals (J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss etc to be interviewed) I've just been to a bullfight, so I'm on dodgy ground' (28th September 1995). 'I will be researching the ways of cannibals - where they were - who they ate - who tasted best and what their favourite sauces are. Did they have head chefs - table manners - religious symbolism & belief in the powers allotted to various parts of the body......Are we in fact missing a vital part of our diets which no amount of lamb or pig can assuage?.....It's a wide & wonderful subject Tom, and in the metaphysical sense we act like cannibals today in this dog eat dog society of ours' (19th October 1995), 'I have read The Mildenhall Treasure - it is a fine TRUE tale of trust and paranoic avarice. Though, Butcher's wife knew. I love the descriptive atmospherics as much as [Roald] Dahl's grasp of human nature. It could be special, but why, I ask myself am I illustrating Dahl, when I could be hurling myself into Rabelais' (16th June 1996), 'I was thrilled to hear from you again. We have now reorganised the answering machines especially for you so that if you want to sing a song, tell me a story, or recite a piece of concrete poetry, you know I will hear it in future' (n.d., although 1996), 'Two things in defence of the "Snags". Defence one: Children love repetition. Defence two: Childrem don't recognise sophistication; only the inherent spirit of fun, the game itself played out between parent & child. I know. It has been tried out on a nursery school full of children and they ask for more. Defence three even: It is a great way to learn punctuation & a wonderful way to read pictures....' (18th June 1996), 'I am in search of magic - in search of Roald Dahl. What made him tick?' (26th November 1996), 'Over the last few months I have been doing some strange but intriguing, and funny!, pictures in the evenings on my knee (on paper of course) which I call my knee jobs. They seem like the basis for a book though I don't quite know how or why' (6th January 1997), 'Cannibals at the moment are rife in the world of publishing, literart meat-eaters, retail/wholesale packagers, remainderers of books which are in their prime, even 'Animal Farm' which is No. 3 in the best 100 books of the 20th century - trashed because 'its sale has gone down to a trickle' and who, I wonder, is prepared to admit blame?......Unless the book smells like a Body Shop and leaps off the shelf to bite you up the arse, what chance do new books have, except one on cannibals who might like a piece of arse for supper' (19th January 1997), 'I hope that our chat yesterday settled the final touches for our collaboration to reincarnate one of Roald Dahl's wonderful true stories' (29th April 1999), 'Here is something to get your teeth into. The spider's mouth is the hole at the back of Dahl's chair - it needs my cryptic explanation' (n.d.), 'I have avoided planning new booksm but I have not been idle.....I have been involved in a modern dance based on the last years of Picasso....I have done the centenary portrait of T. S. Eliot for The Poetry Society celebration in September. That led to a curiosity to see how I could portray his face in paint & I completed 6 paintings of his visage. He has a strange face......Channel 4 are keen to do a film about my Welsh speech based on the 'BOYO' tapestry and I am making a 10 minute short based on a conversation I invented between Marcel Duchamp & Luis Bunuel......I have always felt that the people who do well out of my book signings are the book shops since I give more of a performance that a mere 'Jeffrey Archer' type signing' (n.d., although 1993). Several of the letters are illustrated with a small caricature alongside the signatures. Some very light, minimal age wear, VG, 51Tom Maschler (1933-2020) British publisher who, from 1960, was head of the publishing company Jonathan Cape for more than three decades. Maschler was also instrumental in establishing the Booker Prize in 1969.
WRIGHT TERESA: (1918-2005) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1942 for her role as Carol Beldon Miniver in Mrs. Miniver. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage publicity portrait depicting the actress in a smiling head and shoulders pose. Signed by Wright in blue ink with her name alone to a light area of the image. VG
FOSSE BOB: (1927-1987) American actor, choreographer, dancer and director, Academy Award winner. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, a close-up semi-profile portrait study of Fosse. Signed in black ink with his name alone to a clear area of the background. Some light surface and corner creasing, otherwise about VG
PONCHIELLI AMILCARE: (1834-1886) Italian opera composer. A.L.S., A Ponchielli, to the recto and verso of his personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card, featuring his printed name to the centre, n.p., n.d., to Madame Clelia, in Italian. The composer states that he is waiting from day to day for the photographer Ganzini to send several copies of his portrait, and will hasten to have them prepared as soon as he receives them, further apologising for not having come to see Clelia, which has been unforgivable on his part, and also sending the good wishes of his wife, Teresina. Ponchielli also sends 'Saluti tanto il marito' (Translation: 'My regards to your husband'). A good association piece. Some very light staining and minor age wear, otherwise VGClelia Maria Giuseppina Strepponi (1815-1897) Italian soprano, the second wife of Giuseppe Verdi from 1859. Teresina Brambilla (1845-1921) Italian soprano, particularly noted for her interpretations of the leading roles in operas by Ponchielli, whom she married in 1874. Giovanni Battista Ganzini (1835-1878) Italian photographer whose studios were based in Milan.
BERGMAN INGRID: (1915-1982) Swedish actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1944 for her role as Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight and again in 1956 for her role as Anna Koref/Anastasia in Anastasia. Signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage portrait showing the young actress in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue ink with her name alone to a light area at the base of the image, which also features a white facsimile signature. VG
HOLLIDAY JUDY: (1921-1965) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1950 for her role as Emma ‘Billie’ Dawn in Born Yesterday. A vintage printed folio programme for a Broadway performance of the musical Bells Are Ringing, c.1958, in which Holliday starred in the role of Ella, signed by the actress to a full-inside photo page, the image depicting her in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue ink with her name alone to a light area at the centre of the image. The programme is also signed to a further inside page by actor Hal Linden alongside his portrait and brief printed biography. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG
GABIN JEAN: (1904-1976) French actor. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, the original 20th Century Fox publicity portrait showing Gabin in a head and shoulders pose and issued for his role as Bobo in the romantic drama film Moontide (1942), one of only two films the actor made in America. Photograph by Frank Powolny and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Gabin in blue fountain pen ink, with an inscription in French, to a light area at the base of the image. About EX
JAGGER DEAN: (1903-1991) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1949 for his role as Major Harvey Stovall in Twelve O’Clock High. Signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, the vintage publicity portrait depicting Jagger in a half-length pose in costume as Jesse Q. Grimm from the drama film Executive Suite (1954). Signed by the actor in blue ink to a light area of the background at the head of the image and dated 8th July 1980 in his hand. VG
HAYWORTH RITA: (1918-1987) American actress. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Hayworth in an appealing half-length pose, the original Columbia Pictures Corp. publicity portrait by Coburn dating from 1952 and with the original printed caption affixed to the verso describing the actress as 'Ravishing Rita' and adding that she had recently appeared in the film Salome. Signed by Hayworth in bold blue fountain pen ink to a light area of the background, 'To Antonio, Best Wishes, Rita Hayworth'. VG
RAIMU: (1883-1946) His real name was Jules Auguste Muraire. French Actor. Well remembered for playing César in the Marseilles Trilogy. Signed and inscribed attractive original set of seven 4 x 6 photographs, all of them showing a young Raimu in different close portrait poses. The seven images have been individually carefully affixed to slightly larger cards, framed in wood and glazed to an overall of 32.5 x 8. Raimu writes the inscription over six of the photographs `To Rip - Thanking - for my first great success - The more it changes.. - Cordially - Raimu´, starting on the second image to the left and concluding with his signature `Raimu´ to the seventh and last to the right. Together with Andrée Spinelly (1887-1966) French Actress who played the main role in the premiere of Plus ça Change in 1915. Signed postcard photograph; also including a bold ink signature to a grid 5 x 3 page. G, 3
WILDER GENE: (1933-2016) American comedy actor. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Wilder standing in a half-length pose, smoking a cigarette, in costume as Rudy Valentine, mimicking silent star Rudolph Valentino's character of Julio Desnoyers from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in a publicity portrait for the American parody film The World's Greatest Lover (1977) which was also directed and written by Wilder. Signed in black fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. EX
TRACY SPENCER: (1900-1967) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1937 for his role as Manuel Fidello in Captains Courageous and again in 1938 for his role as Father Edward J. Flanagan in Boys Town. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph, the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity portrait showing Tracy in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in blue fountain pen ink to a largely light area of the background. About EX
SCHMIDT JOSEPH: (1904-1942) Austro-Hungarian tenor. A scarce vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of the tenor in a close-up portrait study. Photograph by Lotte Jacobi of Berlin and published by Ross. Signed by Schmidt in pencil with his name alone to the lower border. Signed photographs of the tenor are scarce as a result of his death at the untimely age of 38. Some very minimal, extremely light age wear to the corners, otherwise VG
MACLAINE SHIRLEY: (1934- ) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1983 for her role as Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. Vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original Paramount Pictures publicity portrait showing the actress in a smiling head and shoulders pose and dating from 1961 at which time she appeared in the studio's romantic screwball comedy film All in a Night's Work in the role of Kate Robbins. Signed by MacLaine in blue ink with her name alone to a light area of the image. VG
COLBERT CLAUDETTE: (1903-1996) French-born American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1934 for her role as Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night. Signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage publicity portrait depicting the young actress in a close-up portrait study. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink with her name alone to a light area at the base of the image. One small tear to the upper edge, repaired to the verso, and with some very minor traces of former mounting to the verso. About VG
WILLIAMS JOHN: (1932- ) American composer of film scores, Academy Award winner. Signed colour 7 x 5 photograph, the inset portrait depicting Williams in a head and shoulders pose with his clasped hands raised to his chin. Signed in bold black ink with his name alone to the ample white border. About EX
BARYSHNIKOV MIKHAIL: (1948- ) Latvian-American ballet dancer and actor. Signed colour 10 x 8 photograph of Baryshnikov in a close-up portrait pose with the side of his face reflected in the mirror in the immediate background. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone to a light area at the base of the image. EX
HOLM CELESTE: (1917-2012) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1947 for her role as Anne Dettrey in Gentleman’s Agreement. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage publicity portrait depicting Holm in a head and shoulders pose in costume as Emily Hefferan from the American comedy film Chicken Every Sunday (1949). Signed by the actress in black ink with her name alone to the image. A pencil annotation in the hand of a collector to the verso indicates that the signature was obtained in person following Holm's stage appearance in the role of Lady Rumpers in the comedy Habeas Corpus at the Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, 28th November 1975. VG
HARRIS ARTHUR T.: (1892-1984) British Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Bomber Command 1942-45. Small collection of three different signed commemorative covers by Harris, each featuring colour images of various aircraft including a Sopwith Tabloid and Lancaster bombers, and one with a small inset portrait of Harris. Post marked between 1975-81. All are signed ('Arthur T. Harris, MRAF') by Harris, two in fountain pen inks, to clear areas of the covers. VG, 3
LEE CHRISTOPHER: (1922-2015) English actor who portrayed Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph, a close-up portrait study of Lee in costume as the vampire Count Dracula. Signed by the actor in bold black ink with his name alone to a light area at the base of the image. EX
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