#60 • Four- Lionel Barrymore Gold Foil Etch Prints

Part of Tan Auction - Motorcycle, Musical Instruments, Furniture & More (timed auction by K and B Auction)

High bid $80.00

Status: Sold

Four- framed gold foil etch prints by Lionel Barrymore- San Pedro (12.75" x 16.75"), Home Port (12.75" x 16.75"), Purdy's Basin ( 8.75" x 10.5") and Old Boat Works ( 8.75" x 10.5"). Three are original pressings by Brown & Bigelow- marked in corners and one is a Standard Package Corp. pressing. Lionel Barrymore was born April 28, 1878, in Philadelphia. His parents were actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore, who had been born Maurice Blythe. Young Lionel wanted to be an artist and sometime in the mid-1890s went to Paris to study art. He returned to the United States in the early 1900s to enter the family business of acting. He had his first role in a Broadway play in 1907, and his first credited film role came in 1908 with the silent film “Paris Hat.” Lionel Barrymore was not really happy with acting and could be found drawing between scenes on movie sets. BP