Nine Unused Henry Miller Signed Picture Postcards

This offering consist of nine unused Henry Miller Signed Picture Postcards. Each postcard has a reproduction of a different Miller painting on one side and Henry Miller's signature on the message/address side. The postcards, which measure approximately 6 x 4 inches, were produced by Museum Reproductions of Alhambra, California. The nine Miller's illustrations are listed below, along with their original medium and dimensions:

• One Fish, Watercolor and Ink, 14 ½ x 8 ½ inches
• Val's Birthday Gift, Watercolor and Ink, 11 ½ x 17 ¼ inches
• Banjo Sel-Portrait (1944), Watercolor, 14 ¼ x 17 inches
• The Hat and the Man ( 1947), Watercolor, 10 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches
• The Ancestor (1958), Watercolor, 13 x 16 inches
• Marine Fantasy (1949), Watercolor, 19 ½ x 15 ½ inches
• Deux Jeunes Filles, Watercolor and Ink, 11 ½ x 14 inches
• Girl with Bird – Watercolor, 14 x 19 ¾ inches
• A Bridge Somewhere (1952) - Watercolor and ink, 11 ½ x 13 ½ inches

The illustrations accompanying this description show the artwork front faces of four of the postcards, plus one photo of a message/address side to show the Henry Miller signature. All of the postcards are in fine condition.

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors. In addition to his literary abilities, Miller produced numerous watercolor paintings and wrote books on this field. He was a close friend of the French painter Gregoire Michonze. It is estimated that Miller painted 2,000 watercolors during his life, and that 50 or more major collections of Miller's paintings exist. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a selection of Miller's watercolors, as did the Henry Miller Museum of Art in Omachi City in Nagano, Japan, before closing in 2001. Miller's daughter Valentine placed some of her father's art for sale in 2005. [Wikipedia]