Details
ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). Photograph signed ("T.S. Eliot"), B.B.C. Publications, London (rubberstamp on verso), n.d. [circa 1950]. 208 x 160 mm. (8¼ x 6¼ in.) including margins. A half-length portrait of the poet, signed on the lower portion of the image.
"Won the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature. He wrote the startling effect poem The Wasteland but he made more money with his poems which inspired the Broadway musical Cats"--W.M.
"Won the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature. He wrote the startling effect poem The Wasteland but he made more money with his poems which inspired the Broadway musical Cats"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4 May 1971, lot 156).