"With much affection always"
Portrait signed and inscribed.
Havana, 1953.
22.8 x 17.1 cm.
€ 18,000.00
"For Beatie / with much / affection / always / Ernest Hemingway/ Havana 1953". Hemingway, who began visiting Cuba frequently from 1932 onward, eventually bought a house in Havana, La Vigía, and lived there from 1943 to 1960.
The recipient, Beatie Guck, was a friend of Hemingway’s fourth wife, Mary. The year this photo was signed was a high point in Hemingway’s later career: he had just published "The Old Man and the Sea" and received the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1953, followed by the Nobel Prize in the following year.
