Dessin original monogrammé au stylo noir représentant Paul Carbone, dit Venture, le célèbre bandit corse ayant régné sur la pègre marseillaise
s. l. s.d. (circa 1943)|16 x 19.50 cm|une feuille
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Original drawing monogrammed and executed in black ballpoint pen by Carlo Rim depicting Paul Carbone, known as Venture, with clenched jaw and wearing dark glasses. The ruled drawing, in blue pencil, is signed in black felt-tip pen Carlo Rim and is captioned "Paul Carbone dit Venture" in pencil. It also bears these indications in red and mauve felt-tip pens: 122 bis and page 123. The manuscript notation "dessin de Carlo Rim" has been masked with correction fluid. Paul Carbone, famous Corsican bandit and godfather of the Marseille underworld, was the first to connect organized crime with the world of politics. Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was notably a friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol as well as Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary.