Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 89

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CARUSO, ENRICO. Ink drawing, Signed, full-length caricature, showing a mustachioed man in profile wearing a bowtie and tailcoat. Signed in pencil diagonally at lower right, with holograph caption at upper right: "Zeggio." 14x8 1/2 inches; upper edge unevenly torn away, few pin holes near lower edge, faint scattered soiling. Np, nd
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In addition to drawing caricatures for friends and admirers, Caruso drew many for publication in La Follia di New York, an Italian-language newspaper published by his friend, Marziale Sisca. Caruso's drawings intended for publication often include faint pencil or blue pencil sketch lines below the inked line, as well as editor's notes and ink stamps in margins and on versos. Many of these caricatures were anthologized in Caricatures by Enrico Caruso (New York: La Follia di New York, 1908); the drawing in the present lot appears on page 126.