DEATH IN VENICE 1971 Dirk Bogarde - Thomas Mann PORTRAIT

Original 9 3/4 inch x 7 5/8 inch Black and White Portrait of DIRK BOGARDE in the 1971 Luchino Visconti Drama DEATH IN VENICE (MORTE A VENEZIA), based on the novel by Thomas Mann.

This late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumours of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann’s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.

The portrait is in fine condition.