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Charles Chaplin – Vintage Wall Art

Charles Chaplin, [ca. 1933] — historic drawing
Charles Chaplin, [ca. 1933]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Charles Chaplin, preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Charles Chaplin

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Among the portraits of Charlie Chaplin in this collection, this one stands out as a working study rather than a finished likeness: a graphite sketch made as preparation for a drawing that was later published in the book Malibu Beach. Chaplin, the British-born comic actor and filmmaker, was at the height of his fame around 1933, when he was known worldwide for his tramp character. The loose, searching lines of the sketch show an artist testing angles and proportions before settling on a final image, which makes it a useful glimpse of the process behind a published portrait.

Created / published[ca. 1933]
Medium1 drawing : graphite ; 22.9 x 15.1 cm. (sheet).
Notes(DLC/PP-1983:69.5) Preliminary sketch for drawing published in: Malibu Beach
SubjectsChaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan962 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165385

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