BOGART HUMPHREY: (1899-1957) American Actor, Academy Award winner. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph depicting Bogey in a head and shoulders pose. The Paramount Pictures publicity portrait dates from 1955. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink across a light area of the image. EX
Estimate £800-1000. Sold for £1000, March 2009 |
EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born Theoretical Physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A fine signed and inscribed sepia 7.5 x 11 photograph of the physicist in a formal head and shoulders pose. Einstein appears pensive as he looks slightly downwards. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink to the lower photographer's mount and dated 1930 in his hand. VG
In 1930, the year that Einstein signed this photograph, the physicist published 'About Zionism: Speeches and Lectures by Albert Einstein'.
Estimate £3000 - 5000. Sold for £4900, March 2009 |
PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter. An excellent signed colour 4 x 6 postcard, being a reproduction of the artist's work Absinth Drinkers. Signed ('Picasso') in blue ink to the lower white border and dated 15th February 1967 in his hand. Scarce in this form. EX
Estimate £800-1000. Sold for £1300, March 2009 |
SCHULZ CHARLES M.: (1922-2000) American Cartoonist, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. A superb original drawing signed, one page, oblong 4to, n.p., n.d. On a sheet of plain white paper Schulz has drawn, in bold black ink, a good sketch of his most famous creation, Snoopy, seated in a happy full length pose on green grass. To the right of Snoopy appears a pink love heart. Signed ('Schulz') in black ink with his name alone at the base of the drawing. Drawings by Schulz of this size and quality are rare and sought after. EX Estimate £600-800. Sold for £1450,
March 2009 |
RUSKIN JOHN: (1819-1900) English Author, Poet, Artist and Critic. A good signed and inscribed sepia cabinet photograph depicting the bearded Ruskin in a head and shoulders pose wearing a dark overcoat. Photograph by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London. Signed by Ruskin in dark ink to the lower photographer's mount and dated 1883 in his hand. Some slight scuffing to the image and light age wear to the extreme lower edge, otherwise VG
Estimate £100 - 150. Sold for £520, March 2009 |
STRAUSS II JOHANN: (1825-1899) Austrian Composer, known as The Waltz King. A fine signed sepia carte-de-visite photograph of Strauss in a formal head and shoulders pose wearing a dark jacket and waistcoat. Photograph by Fritz Luckhardt of Vienna. Boldly signed in dark fountain pen ink by Strauss with his name alone across a light area of the image. A very light band of discoloration appears at the left of the image, otherwise about EX
Estimate £600 - 900. Sold for £1000, March 2009 |
DE FALLA MANUEL: (1876-1946) Spanish Composer. A.M.Q.S., Manuel de Falla, one page, 12mo, n.p., 1931. On a plain sheet De Falla has boldly penned two bars of music from an unidentified composition. Signed and dated in bold dark fountain pen ink beneath the quotation. Neatly laid down, VG Estimate £250 - 350. Sold for £510, March 2009 |
BARNUM P. T.: (1810-1891) American Showman. A.L.S., P. T. Barnum, one page, 8vo, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1st August 1881, to Frederick Gutekunst, on Barnum's printed stationery featuring a fine head and shoulders portrait of the showman. Barnum announces that he has found the notepaper among his papers although doesn't know who printed it, continuing 'If you print such photographs, or any kind on note paper, at a price that would bring it within a proper limit for use as business notepaper, I would like to know it.' Barnum further remarks 'The last pictures (Phototypes) which you took of me, I carried to England & gave to my English friends who admired them beyond any pictures they ever saw before.' With blank integral leaf. At the head of the page are a few pencil calculations, evidently reflecting the cost of producing different quantities of the notepaper. One very light stain, just affecting a few words of text, although still perfectly legible. VG
Frederick Gutekunst (1832-1917) German-born American Photographer. Estimate £600 - 800. Sold for £850, March 2009 |
