french novelist, critic and essayest, best known for his monumental profound novel 'remembrances of things past' published between 1913 and 1927. he was raised catholic but didn't practice it; he was asthmatic and sickly child. a homosexual, he never married and lived on his mother's considerable inheritance. 1871-1922 died age 51.

black conté pencil drawing
20x30 inch (51x76 cm) approx.