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Lot 3262

A framed group of drawings by Henry Fonda

5 May 2013, 10:00 PDT
Los Angeles

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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A framed group of drawings by Henry Fonda

Pencil on paper, cut out and laid down to a larger piece of paper, matted and framed. Inscribed by Fonda in white ink, "Just a lot / of nothing / for Johnny / from Hank." Done by Fonda while starring in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial on Broadway in 1954-5. While the attorney opposite him was speaking, Fonda would draw to entertain himself. He gifted the group of drawings to a fellow actor, John Crawford, who assembled them into a collage that Fonda then signed. Together with a vintage photograph of Fonda in the play, a reprint still from The Longest Day (1962) showing Crawford and Fonda together, a reproduction photograph of Crawford in the play, an additional photograph of Crawford and Fonda together, and a copy of Theatre Arts magazine from April 1954, with a cover article on the production.
Within mat: 13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.; Overall: 20 x 25 in.

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