Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LEONCAVALLO, RUGGIERO. Three items, each Signed, "Leoncavallo" or "R. Leoncavallo": Menu * Autograph Note, on a postcard * Photograph, cabinet card. The menu, for a dinner held in honor of Leoncavallo by the Los Angeles branch of the Dante Alighieri Society of Rome on December 9, 1913. Signed below his portrait on front cover. 4 pages, small 8vo, folded card; minor abrasions at extreme edges of front cover. The postcard, to the director of l'Opera Comique in Paris Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, in French, inquiring whether he received his package, hoping he would send a word to a humble Italian soldier who adores France. On verso is a photograph showing a full-length portrait of Leoncavallo in soldier's attire. 1 page, oblong 12mo; addressed in holograph, with cancelled 10-centesimi postage stamp. The photograph, "R. Leoncavallo," full-length group portrait by Büchi, showing him seated with his wife Berthe and others. Signed in the image diagonally at lower left. 5x7 inches; slight smudging to signature. [Los Angeles, 9 December 1913]; Montecatini Terme, 7 September 1917 [from postmark]; Np, nd
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