FILM STARS AND ENTERTAINERSApproximately two hundred and thirty pencil portraits of stars drawn by Raymond A. Swainston between 1931-1951, a quantity of autograph and typescript letters and approximately one hundred publicity photographs and postcards, majority of the material signed by subjects, some with secretarial or printed facsimile signatures, various subjects include Leslie Banks (2) James Cagney (2), Dwight Eisenhower?, Alan Ladd (2), Ronald Reagan (2), Gregory Peck (2), Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart (2), Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Claudette Colbert, Gene Autrey, Malcolm Campbell (3), Raymond Massey (2), Dolores Del Rio (2), Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Leslie Howard, Johnny Weissmuller?, Will Hay, Robert Taylor (2), Fred Astaire, Vivien Leigh (2), Anna May Wong, Maurice Chevalier, Fredrick March, Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, Jessie Matthews (2), Clive Brook, Louis Armstrong (3), Leslie Howard and George Formby (2) in two albums, both large 4to. (2)

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FILM STARS AND ENTERTAINERSApproximately two hundred and thirty pencil portraits of stars drawn by Raymond A. Swainston between 1931-1951, a quantity of autograph and typescript letters and approximately one hundred publicity photographs and postcards, majority of the material signed by subjects, some with secretarial or printed facsimile signatures, various subjects include Leslie Banks (2) James Cagney (2), Dwight Eisenhower?, Alan Ladd (2), Ronald Reagan (2), Gregory Peck (2), Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart (2), Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Claudette Colbert, Gene Autrey, Malcolm Campbell (3), Raymond Massey (2), Dolores Del Rio (2), Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Leslie Howard, Johnny Weissmuller?, Will Hay, Robert Taylor (2), Fred Astaire, Vivien Leigh (2), Anna May Wong, Maurice Chevalier, Fredrick March, Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, Jessie Matthews (2), Clive Brook, Louis Armstrong (3), Leslie Howard and George Formby (2) in two albums, both large 4to. (2)

拍品专文

According to a newspaper cutting from June 27th 1939, Raymond A. Swainston a 24-year-old sample-clerk spent his days in a Manchester warehouse snipping cloth patterns with his right hand; and his evenings at home in Stockport drawing portraits of celebrities with his left hand. He told the reporter . " I have never failed to get one of my drawings signed, although sometimes it has taken several months to come back" He also added that sometimes he was asked by the stars he approached to make another copy of his pencil portrait for their private collection.