Pastel portrait of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford

[1998].

Price: $6,000.00

Unbound. Large pastel drawing of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. Image size 33" x 30.25"; and has been framed and glazed to 39.25" x 36.75" in a black wooden frame. Fine. Excellent large portrait of the two allied authors. This image was used as the lead illustration in Ford's long profile of Carver, "Good Raymond," that appeared in the October 5, 1998 issue of *The New Yorker*. A finished portrait, the only variation in the published version of the artwork was that Merkin's signature was digitally moved slightly to one side. Merkin was a highly talented artist who was known for his wide variety of activities and interests: as a fashion horse and beau brummell who wrote a monthly column for *Gentleman's Quarterly*, as a noted collector of erotica, and as a scholarly student of early baseball.

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Item #331798 Pastel portrait of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. Raymond Carver, Richard Ford.

Raymond Carver
birth name: Raymond Carver
born: 5/25/1938
died: 8/2/1988

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Biography

American short-story writer noted for his spare, unadorned tales about the wrenching lives of working-class people. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Carver's two most expensive books are his rare first book Near Klamath (1968), a pamphlet collection of poems published by the English Club of the college where he was then teaching, Sacramento State College; and his first commercially published book, a collection of short stories Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (1976), which is difficult to find in fine condition.

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