[Rarebooks] FS: Eugene O'Neill PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE Carlotta

[Charles Agvent]

O'NEILL, Eugene. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE with SIGNED VAN 
VECHTEN PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS WIFE CARLOTTA and SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS 
SON. Fine 7-3/4" x 9-3/4" studio portrait by Pinchot of New York from a 
1933 sitting of the brooding O'Neill INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner to his wife: "To Carlotta--/with all my 
love,/Sweetheart!/Gene/Feb. '35," the year before O'Neill became the 
first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize. Signed photographs of 
O'Neill are distinctly uncommon. This is one of the finest in existence. 
Accompanied by a 6-1/2" x 8-3/4" Carl Van Vechten photograph of Carlotta 
O'Neill with Van Vechten's ink stamp identification on the rear and red 
ink annotations. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front of the photograph by 
Carlotta "To Dorothy & Saxe--/Dearest love/Carlotta 1933." Saxe Cummins 
was editor to O'Neill and William Faulkner among others. Also included 
is a scarce 5" x 7-1/2" photograph of Eugene O'Neill, Jr., the 
playwright's eldest son by his first of three wives, Kathleen Jenkins 
(O'Neill had one other son, Shane, an emotionally unstable drug addict 
who committed suicide and a daughter, Oona, who was cut out of O'Neill's 
life when at the age of 18 she married the 54-year old Charlie 
Chaplin.). INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the playwright's son to noted 
collector LaFayette Butler "with gratitude & best wishes." O'Neill's 
namesake committed suicide in 1950 at the age of 40, likely not very 
long after signing this photograph and three years before his father's 
death. This photograph is tipped at the top verso to a board but is 
otherwise Fine. Near Fine to Fine and an extraordinary collection. 
(#012397)        $15,000

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