Boris Pasternak-RARE Vintage Signed Photo (Wrote Dr. Zhivago, Nobel Prize 1958)

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Boris Pasternak-RARE Vintage Signed Photo (Wrote Dr. Zhivago, Nobel Prize 1958):
$18750.00

4.25X6 Vintage original photograph signed in purple fountain pen ink in the lower margin, "For Mr. Jim Wiggins with best wishes and regards, Aug 15, 1959, B. Pasternak." A crease to the upper left corner, otherwise excellent.
We cannot find another photograph of his that has ever sold on the internet or anywhere. Someone stated this could be worth $20,000.
(1890-1960) Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy for publication. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize. Finally, in 1989 Pasternak's son Yevgeny accepted the award on his father's behalf. Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003.
This lot came from the Jim Wiggins collection we purchased in July 2022. Jim Wiggins accumulated the most unique and valuable autograph collection over a period of 70-plus years. He obtained his collection either in person or by writing to persons of fame and notoriety.
Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.