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- Evita!
- Evita
Duarte Perón
- Incredibly
Rare 1939 Signed Photograph as
- Evita
Duarte
- With
an Accompanying Signed Photograph of Juan Perón
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- SOLD
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María
Eva Duarte de Perón 'Evita' (1919-1952). Actress and Legendary 'First Lady' of Argentina,
wife of Juan Perón. Extraordinarily Rare Photograph
Signed, being a 3.5 in. by 5.5 in. publicity portrait of
a young Evita as an aspiring actress, dated 1939. Boldly signed
and inscribed in blue fountain pen. Reads (in Spanish): "Para
Indres G. Porce con todo la simpatio de Evita Duarte 1939".
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- Juan Perón (1895-1974). Argentine General, Dictator, and President (1946-1955).
Black and White Photograph Signed, dated in his hand Buenos
Aires, 31 October 1973. Somewhat toned, with minor surface wear,
stains, and crease on lower left corner, otherwise a nice accompanying
piece with the Evita.
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- Evita, as she was affectionately called,
was one of the most influential figures in Argentina history.
The actress turned First Lady, became the center of a vast personality
cult and her image and name soon appeared everywhere during her
rise to power in the mid-1940s.
A
product of the lower class herself, she was worshipped by her
working-class followers. Assuming the role of her husband's liaison
with labor, Evita became a co-leader of the descamisados ("the
shirtless"). Using her weekly radio show she delivered powerful
speeches with heavy populist rhetoric urging the poor to rise
up. After Perón was elected Evita immediately took a prominent
political role in the government. She created the Eva Perón
Foundation, an institution to assist the poor, and organized
the women's branch of the Justicialist Party. At the same she
was bitterly hated by Argentina's wealthy Anglophile elite. They
detested her humble roots and alleged history of sexual promiscuity,
and many felt that as a woman she was far too active in politics.
Her legend and cult status increased with her untimely death
of uterine cancer at the age of 33.
- Incredibly rare! This is the first Evita
signed photograph we have ever handled. $OLD.
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