G. Puccini. Large photograph signed and inscribed to Sybil Seligman, 1920

PUCCINI, GIACOMO
Large photograph signed and inscribed on the mount ("Giacomo Puccini"), to Sybil Seligmann

"Alla cara e fedele amica Sybil, affettuosamente GiacomoPuccini, Torre del Lago, Nov: 1920", an atmospheric study of the composer in a 3-piece suit and a fedora

c.30.5 x 22.5cm. by Atelier Foka of Vienna, blind stamp and pencil inscription to mount ("Atelier Foka Wien II/ 1920", some creasing and foxing to the mount

This photograph is reproduced in Vincent Seligman, Puccini Among Friends (1938), facing p.320 (“After the Trittico at Covent Garden (1920)”).

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