AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
By International Autograph Auctions
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Dec 2, 2020
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 170:
MARCEAU MARCEL: (1923-2007) French mime Artist and Actor. Marceau is best known for his stage character Bip the ...
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120
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€120 - €200
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MARCEAU MARCEL: (1923-2007) French mime Artist and Actor. Marceau is best known for his stage character Bip the Clown. Marceau performed for over 60 years, referring to mime as ''the Art of Silence''. A good signed and inscribed 5 x 7 photograph by Marceau, the attractive shot depicting the French mime artist performing, in costume, in a half length amusing pose. Signed and inscribed in bold black ink to clear areas of the image `..With all my heart - Marcel Marceau.´ Marceau has also added to the lower white border his mime stage persona `Bip´, drawing alongside a flower, and adding the date 1984 in his hand. Very small minor age wear, otherwise about VG Marceau, born Marcel Mangel, as a Jewish youth, lived hiding and worked with the French Resistance during WWII. He gave his first major performance in 1944, to 3000 soldiers after the liberation of Paris. Marceau was a close friend of Michael Jackson who confessed he used some of Marceau´s techniques in his own dance steps.
