Dec 06, 2018 - Sale 2495

Sale 2495 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
AURELIUS BATTAGLIA.
Jim Tully. Caricature likely for Vanity Fair magazine, circa early-1930s. Charcoal on paper. 552x451 mm; 21 3/4x17 3/4 inches, on 24x19-inch sheet. Signed "Battaglia" in lower right image.
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As one of the earliest Hollywood freelance reporters in the 1920s and `30s, Tully became known as a real enfant-terrible for his candid and unsavory profiles of celebrities. In addition to his infamous role in journalism, his scrappy upbringing and creative streak led him to success in fields as varied as pugilism, tree surgery, and poetry, fiction, memoir, and travel writing. He is considered somewhat of a cult figure today.