PHOTOGRAPH OF TRUMAN CAPOTE IN RUSSIA 1955, PUBLISHED IN GERALD CLARKE'S BIOGRAPHY
Gelatin silver photograph of Truman Capote standing beside a coach, wearing a knitted cap, spectacles and a striped scarf with a coat over his arm, other travellers around him, the verso marked in pencil 38 percent.
In December 1955 Capote traveled to the Soviet Union with the Everyman Opera company for the Leningrad premiere of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess — the first American theatrical company to perform in Russia since the Revolution — an account he published as The Muses Are Heard (1956). Writing of the bitter Russian winter, he described his fellow travelers sitting "bundled in the paraphernalia, the scarves and woolly coats, they'd specially acquired for their Russian journey." —Truman Capote, The Muses Are Heard, 1956.
Approx. Dimensions: 10 "x 8 "
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Provenance: Truman Capote; Gerald Clarke, his biographer
This lot is part of The Magpie and the Swans: The Possessions of Truman Capote, collected over a lifetime between New York and Sagaponack, and preserved since 1984 by his biographer, Gerald Clarke.
Literature: Gerald Clarke, Capote: A Biography, in which this photograph is reproduced.
Notes: Although care is taken to photograph and describe the item, absence of a condition report does not imply perfect condition. It is the responsibility of the buyer to verify the condition of the item, either in person during our viewing hours prior to auction or through requested condition reports. All bids are final and are subject to our terms and conditions.
Appeal: truman capote, russia, soviet union, 1955, the muses are heard, porgy and bess, leningrad, gelatin silver photograph, gerald clarke biography, published, celebrity estate, provenance
Gelatin silver photograph of Truman Capote standing beside a coach, wearing a knitted cap, spectacles and a striped scarf with a coat over his arm, other travellers around him, the verso marked in pencil 38 percent.
In December 1955 Capote traveled to the Soviet Union with the Everyman Opera company for the Leningrad premiere of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess — the first American theatrical company to perform in Russia since the Revolution — an account he published as The Muses Are Heard (1956). Writing of the bitter Russian winter, he described his fellow travelers sitting "bundled in the paraphernalia, the scarves and woolly coats, they'd specially acquired for their Russian journey." —Truman Capote, The Muses Are Heard, 1956.
Approx. Dimensions: 10 "x 8 "
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Provenance: Truman Capote; Gerald Clarke, his biographer
This lot is part of The Magpie and the Swans: The Possessions of Truman Capote, collected over a lifetime between New York and Sagaponack, and preserved since 1984 by his biographer, Gerald Clarke.
Literature: Gerald Clarke, Capote: A Biography, in which this photograph is reproduced.
Notes: Although care is taken to photograph and describe the item, absence of a condition report does not imply perfect condition. It is the responsibility of the buyer to verify the condition of the item, either in person during our viewing hours prior to auction or through requested condition reports. All bids are final and are subject to our terms and conditions.
Appeal: truman capote, russia, soviet union, 1955, the muses are heard, porgy and bess, leningrad, gelatin silver photograph, gerald clarke biography, published, celebrity estate, provenance
