BOGART HUMPHREY: (1899-1957) American actor, Academy Award winner. Vintage signed and inscribed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph of the actor seated in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in fountain pen ink to the image, ‘To the crew of “The Ship”, Good sailing, Humphrey Bogart’. The signature and inscription are somewhat faded although legible when viewed at the correct angle. Neatly trimmed to the right border and with some light surface creasing and a few areas of loss to the image at the edges. Together with Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) American actress, the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award. Bacall was married to Bogart from 1945 until the actor’s death in 1957. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Bacall seated on a desk in a three-quarter length pose, in costume as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge, speaking on a telephone as Bogart, in costume as Philip Marlowe, stands alongside in a scene from the film noir The Big Sleep (1946). Signed by Bacall in bold black ink with her name alone to a light area of the image. About G to VG, 2

The present photograph of Bogart was most likely presented to a pub where it was evidently displayed. Bogart himself was an enthusiastic sailor who had enlisted in the United States Navy during World War I and later spent around thirty weekends a year on the water after acquiring the sailing yacht Santana in 1945.