Remarkable hand-painted 1946 Christmas card, 4.75 x 4, featuring a wonderful self-portrait caricature of Fields dressed as Santa Claus, signed in the lower right in red paint, “W. C. Fields.” Fields has cleverly portrayed himself as Santa Claus with a cigar in hand, using the residual smoke to spell out, “Merry Xmas.” In fine condition, with a trivial brush to the last letter of his signature. According to the consignor, who has one of the largest Fields collections in private hands, Fields created about one dozen of these Christmas cards while being treated in a sanitarium, and sent this particular card to one of his old girlfriends, Maude Fendick. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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