Photographie originale de Tristan Bernard prise à Cannes en 1943

Original photograph probably taken by Carlo Rim showing Tristan Bernard bearded, in overcoat, posing slightly in profile in front of a palm tree, vintage silver gelatin print.
Manuscript annotations on verso, by Carlo Rim (who certainly photographed Tristan Bernard): "Tristan Bernard Cannes", in blue pen, then continuing in pencil when his pen failed: "Cannes 1943".
Provenance: from the library of the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim who was notably a friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.
During the Occupation, Tristan Bernard took refuge in Cannes and stayed at the Hotel Windsor while his friend Carlo Rim offered in vain for him to stay at his house so that he would be safe from denunciation or arrest; to which Tristan Bernard, never short of witticisms, replied: "At my age, one no longer sleeps away from home!" adding: "Do you know that I appear in the Petit Larousse? They don't arrest someone who appears in the Petit Larousse."
He was nevertheless arrested in September 1943 as a Jew and interned with his wife at Drancy then released through the intervention of Sacha Guitry and Arletty the following month.
His grandson François-René was also arrested as a resistance fighter and deported to Mauthausen where he died.