MANN THOMAS: (1875-1955) German Novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1929. A clean bold black fountain pen ...

MANN THOMAS: (1875-1955) German Novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1929. A clean bold black fountain pen ink signature `Thomas Mann´ to the heading of an 8.5 x 10.5 (21,5 x 27 cm) page removed from an autograph album. Underlined and with two vertical lines beneath as he used to do avoiding any writing which could be attributed to him. Small overall minor age toning to edges, otherwise G to VG Provenance: The present page originates from the personal autograph album of Marina Chaliapin (1912-2009), the daughter of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), widely regarded as one of the finest bass singers of the 20th century, and his mistress Marina Petsold (1882-1964) who became the singer's second wife in 1927. Chaliapin's daughter was married to Luigi Freddi (1895-1977) the Italian journalist and politician who edited the journal Il Popolo d'Italia and who was also hugely influential in Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and beginning of the 1940s