2021-10 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/16/2021
Signed Endorsed Rotogravure Photo Print, 10” x 14”, with endorsement “By Joe never say Die! To Mr. Charles E. Pont an artist of my heart with best wishes and admiration from a sailor, Felix Count Luckner, Jan. 11, 1932.” The image portrait photo taken c. 1920 by F. Langhammer, Cassel. Felix Nikolaus Alexander Georg Graf von Luckner (1881, Dresden-1966), sometimes called Count Luckner in English, was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and sailor who earned the epithet the “Sea Devil”, and his crew that of the “Emperor's Pirates”, for his exploits in command of the sailing commerce raider SMS Sea Eagle between 1916 and 1917. Charles E. Pont (1898 1971) was a French-born Swiss-American artist and Baptist minister. He painted murals for the WPA, and was a renowned maritime illustrator. His work in permanent public collections.
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