Lot 369
  • 369

(Literary Portraits)

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • pen and ink on paper
Clemens, Samuel L.  Autograph quotation signed ("Mark Twain"), inscribed below a pen-and-ink portrait of the author by Robert Kastor (signed "R. Kastor"), approx 11 x 9 in.; 278 x 228 mm), Paris, June 1894.  Matted, glazed and framed (not examined out of frame).

Catalogue Note

A splendid portrait in profile of Mark Twain, inscribed by him in Paris in June 1894.  "Truth is stranger than fiction—to some people; but I am measurably familiar with it.  Mark Twain.  Paris, June 1894."