TRUMAN CAPOTE'S CAST PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE GRASS HARP
A black and white production photograph from a stage performance of The Grass Harp, Capote's play after his own novel. Printed to a single weight sheet, unsigned and without caption or credit. Set behind glass on a wide cream mount in a plain pale wood frame.
Condition: the print with even overall toning and light surface soiling, the image strong and the blacks deep. The mount lightly foxed at the outer edges. The frame with minor knocks and rubbing; the backboard browned, cracked across one corner and lifting.
Approx. Dimensions: the image 10 " x 9.5 "; the frame 13.5 " x 13.5 "
Artist or Maker: Unknown photographer
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.
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 or by requesting a condition report.
Appeal: the grass harp, truman capote play, broadway production, production photograph, stage photograph, theater photography, tree house scene, dolly talbo, judge cool, american theater, 1950s broadway, literary memorabilia, truman capote
A black and white production photograph from a stage performance of The Grass Harp, Capote's play after his own novel. Printed to a single weight sheet, unsigned and without caption or credit. Set behind glass on a wide cream mount in a plain pale wood frame.
Condition: the print with even overall toning and light surface soiling, the image strong and the blacks deep. The mount lightly foxed at the outer edges. The frame with minor knocks and rubbing; the backboard browned, cracked across one corner and lifting.
Approx. Dimensions: the image 10 " x 9.5 "; the frame 13.5 " x 13.5 "
Artist or Maker: Unknown photographer
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.
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 or by requesting a condition report.
Appeal: the grass harp, truman capote play, broadway production, production photograph, stage photograph, theater photography, tree house scene, dolly talbo, judge cool, american theater, 1950s broadway, literary memorabilia, truman capote
