A Parisian Toast (with a fine Sancerre)

A toast to James Martin Heidelberg, Sr., Robert Creeley and Ernest Miller Hemingway, with the bartender's note giving the name of a Sancerre (Sauvignon Blanc) tasted at the bar of the Hotel Crillon in Paris, "where Lady Brett stood up Jake Barnes," in Hemingway's novel, THE SUN ALSO RISES. Also in the photographic collage is a portrait of Hemingway's good friend, actress Marlene Dietrich.

The book in the work is the 2009 edition of Hemingway's Parisian memoir, A MOVEABLE FEAST.

This photograph was taken overlooking the rue de Fleurus in Paris' Sixth Arrondissement, where Hemingway walked after visits to the nearby Luxembourg Gardens as he journeyed to the home and studio of American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein, at 27, rue de Fleurus. Stein lived for three decades at 27, rue de Fleurus, about 500 yards from where this work was taken.

Stein was a major influence on Hemingway's development as a writer of fiction.