Edward G. Robinson
Pencil Portrait by Antonio Bosano.
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The quality of the prints are at a much higher level compared to the image shown on the left.
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A3 Pencil Print-Price £45.00-Purchase
A4 Pencil Print-Price £30.00-Purchase
*Limited edition run of 250 prints only*
All Pencil Prints are printed on the finest Bockingford Somerset Velvet 255 gsm paper.
P&P is not included in the above prices.
Recommended viewing
Little Caesar (1931)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The woman in the window (1944)
The Stranger (1946)
Key Largo (1948)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Recommended reading
All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography (Edward G Robinson) 1973
Robinson’s posthumously published autobiography.
Surfing
WHERE DANGER LIVES : Mother of Mercy: Edward G. Robinson and Film Noir
http://wheredangerlives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/mother-of-mercy-edward-g-robinson-and.html
An interesting essay on Robinson’s work originally published in ‘Noir City,’ the magazine of the Film Noir Foundation.
The original film posters are evocative of a long gone era.
Comments
A mesmerising screen presence, Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973) may have lacked the physical stature and good looks of a leading man, but he more than compensated with the passion and authority of his acting. Forever identified with the snarling gangster of ‘Little Caesar’ (1931), in real life he was a man embued with great kindness, generosity, civiity, and a passionate love of fine art.
In any professional meritocracy there are winners and losers, but occasionally an industry leading light is consistently overlooked. Robinson was never once nominated for an academy award – an oversight that beggars belief – yet with hindsight, he is now rightly considered one of the greatest actors of te 20th century.
If you are unfamiliar with his body of work, then give today’s mindless CGI epics a well deserved rest, and discover his oeuvre. Even the minor entries in his cinematic cannon are emblematic of acting at its finest.