Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CARUSO, ENRICO. Group of 5 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed. Format and condition vary. Vp, [1907-16]

Additional Details

Signature and date, on a small card. 2x3½ inches; marginal discoloration from prior matting. New York, 1907 • Ink drawing, bust portrait showing unnamed man in profile wearing eyeglasses. 5½x3½ inches. Buffalo, 1908 • Photograph, "To Miss Jessie B. Minges / With best wishes," half-length portrait by Chickering, showing him holding his bowler hat and walking stick. Inscribed on the mount at lower edge. 9½x7½ inches (image), 14x11 inches overall. Rochester, 1908 • Souvenir menu for Lotos Club dinner, lithograph showing a collage by Thomas A. Sindelar featuring photographic portraits of Caruso in the costume of some of his best-known roles, a reproduction of a self-caricature by Caruso, and the list of menu items served at the dinner held in Caruso's honor on February 5, 1916, at the Lotos Club in New York. Signed at lower edge, in pencil. 10½x16 inches; dampstaining at lower edge (not affecting signature). [New York, 1916] • Ink drawing, full-length portrait of unnamed man in profile wearing mustache. With brief holograph note on verso, in blue pencil, concerning address of an editor in Brookline, MA. 8½x5 inches; folds. Boston, nd.