Apr 27, 2023 - Sale 2634

Sale 2634 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(GREAT AMERICAN WRITER)
Portrait of Ernest Hemmingway at 16 (1899-1961), Oak Park, Illinois. Toned silver contact print, the image measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with numeric notations in the negative and various identifying notations in pencil and in ink, in unknown hands, on verso. Circa 1915

Provenance: Joseph the Provider Books, Santa Barbara

Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. At this early age he was developing a love for the outdoors, his intensity and interest in writing already apparent.