JOHN RAITT - INSCRIBED ORIGINAL ART SIGNED 1942 CO-SIGNED BY: BILL "BOJANGLES" ROBINSON - HFSID 298454
Price: $300.00
JOHN RAITT and BILL "BOJANGLES" ROBINSON
Original portrait of Robinson, drawn by John Raitt, signed by both
Original Art inscribed and signed: "In appreciation to a real/artist - John E. Raitt/With sincere
good/wishes always/Bill Robinson/1942", 6x8. Pencil drawing also signed by the artist "Raitt".
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson gained great success as a nightclub and musical comedy
performer and for 25 years was one of the toasts of Broadway. Not until he was fifty
(1928) did he dance for white audiences, having devoted his early career exclusively to
appearances on the Black theater circuit. As Walker the butler, he performed a magnificent
stair-dance duet with Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel (1935). In 1939 he returned to
the stage in The Hot Mikado, a jazz version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Produced at
the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, it was one of the greatest hits of the fair.While in
college in the 1930s, JOHN RAITT began drawing portraits of famous people. He sent his
artwork to each subject with a request that it be autographed and returned to him. Two
horizontal folds. Tape affixed at corners. Otherwise, fine condition.
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