Baron Adolf de Meyer

mounted, signed with the photographer's stylized signature in pencil and signed and inscribed to Frank Crowninshield by the sitter in ink on the mount, framed, 1920 (Jullian, pl. 41)

Christie's New York, 23 April 1990, Sale 7054, Lot 51

The dedication reads: 'My Best wishes to Frank Crowninshield, Sincerely yours, Charlie Chaplin,' This early, slightly warm-toned print, is in generally excellent condition. The perimeter of the card mount is slightly age-darkened.
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Writer, editor, critic, and intellectual man-about-town Frank Crowninshield was managing editor of Vanity Fair from 1914 until 1935.

Another image from this sitting appeared in the January 1921 issue of Vanity Fair, with accompanying text by e. e. cummings: 'Homage--in the name of Beauty and Life--to the incomparable master of Make-Believe, the unparalleled Price of Pretend:  Charlie Chaplin, deity and doll, hero and clown, angel and penguin.'