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Auction archive: Lot number 2

AGEE, JAMES. Autograph manuscripts (two drafts) of "Impressions of Havana," an article written for Fortune magazine, n.p., [1930s]. Together 5 pages, small 4to, in pencil with some revisions, the first draft (2 pages) unfinished . Agee, his wife, and...

Auction 12.11.1997
12 Nov 1997
Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$575
Auction archive: Lot number 2

AGEE, JAMES. Autograph manuscripts (two drafts) of "Impressions of Havana," an article written for Fortune magazine, n.p., [1930s]. Together 5 pages, small 4to, in pencil with some revisions, the first draft (2 pages) unfinished . Agee, his wife, and...

Auction 12.11.1997
12 Nov 1997
Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$575
Beschreibung:

AGEE, JAMES. Autograph manuscripts (two drafts) of "Impressions of Havana," an article written for Fortune magazine, n.p., [1930s]. Together 5 pages, small 4to, in pencil with some revisions, the first draft (2 pages) unfinished . Agee, his wife, and the photographer, Walker Evans approaching Cuba on a liner: "...About noon on Tuesday, low hills enlarged and lay by us on our left, cloven, green-brown, low and smoothly muscled; low stretched...into the water; drinking cattle; and here and there, miles ahead, villages, glinting like crumbs of glass in the muted sun; and this was the island, Cuba, her smooth lounging capes, harmless and sensitive looking like the South, cane, tobacco, steaming swamps in the sun: of whom, the night before, softly, the dangerous songs had been sung..."

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

AGEE, JAMES. Autograph manuscripts (two drafts) of "Impressions of Havana," an article written for Fortune magazine, n.p., [1930s]. Together 5 pages, small 4to, in pencil with some revisions, the first draft (2 pages) unfinished . Agee, his wife, and the photographer, Walker Evans approaching Cuba on a liner: "...About noon on Tuesday, low hills enlarged and lay by us on our left, cloven, green-brown, low and smoothly muscled; low stretched...into the water; drinking cattle; and here and there, miles ahead, villages, glinting like crumbs of glass in the muted sun; and this was the island, Cuba, her smooth lounging capes, harmless and sensitive looking like the South, cane, tobacco, steaming swamps in the sun: of whom, the night before, softly, the dangerous songs had been sung..."

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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