Amazing and visually-striking vintage glossy 6.75 x 9.25 photo of Hemingway and Elicio Arguelles posing alongside a giant marlin, signed and inscribed in fountain pen “To J. C. De Clairmont from his and Wheerler’s friend, Ernest Hemingway. This fish caught by Elicio Arguelles, Old Man and the Sea Expedition, Cabo Blanco, May 1956.” Scattered creases, surface marks, and dings, silvering to darker areas of image (visible only at an angle), and portions of Hemingway’s signature and inscription a couple shades light due to decreased ink flow, otherwise very good condition.
Just off the northern coast of Peru, Cabo Blanco was known worldwide as Marlin Boulevard for the record-setting fish that filled its waters. It was there that Hemingway spent April and May of 1956 with a film crew from Warner Brothers studios making the movie version of his book, The Old Man and the Sea. Cuban sportsman Elicio Arguelles, who accompanied him on several of his fishing trips for the film, proudly stands next to his catch from one such trip with the great writer at the other side. From Hemingway’s quintessential fisherman pose, to the story-related setting, to the lengthy inscription in his hand labeling the catch as a result of an “Old Man and the Sea Expedition,” this photo is exceptional! Absolutely one of the greatest literary-related photos we have ever seen. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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