Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
MURPHY, GERALD CLERY. Group of 7 Autograph Postcards Signed, "G." or "Gerald.," to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Purdy. Oblong 12mo; condition generally good. Vp, 1945-49 [from postmarks]
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8 September 1945: ". . . You have an experiencing nature. . . . Most of us are half dead. (What did Auden say?: 'I assure you that if you were half-awake, life would be intolerable.' . . ."
22 October 1947: ". . . What I saw was not cheering. . . . England: orderly disintegration. France: recovery in chaos. . . ."
7 September 1949: "This does not bring out the sunnier side of the Italian nature but it's a good picture constructionally [sic] . . . ," on the verso of a reproduction of Bellini's Portrait of a Condottiere.