AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
By International Autograph Auctions
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Jun 7, 2018
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 195:
CARUSO ENRICO: (1873-1921) Italian Tenor. An excellent, and unusually large, signed and inscribed 14 x 19 ...
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Sold for: €2,200
Start price:
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2,300
Estimated price :
€2,300 - €3,400
VAT: 17%
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CARUSO ENRICO: (1873-1921) Italian Tenor. An excellent, and unusually large, signed and inscribed 14 x 19 photograph by Caruso. The original well-known photograph by Herman Mishkin depicting the Italian tenor standing, in a full length pose, in costume as Canio in Leoncavallo«s opera Pagliacci (1892), one of his most famous roles, holding his clown drum. Signed and attractively inscribed to the centre of the drum `Alla gentile amica Anna Case in signo di ammirazione ed amicizia - Enrico Caruso«, in Italian, also dated in his hand 11th April 1917. The photographer«s mount bears to the right bottom corner the Mishkin Studio stamp. VG £2000-3000 Herman Mishkin (1870-1948) Russian-born American Photographer. He specialized in photographing Opera Singers. Anna Case (1888-1984) American Soprano. Case recorded extensively the very first Thomas Edison records tests. Case sang the premiere of Boris Godounov in 1913 at the Metropolitan.
