May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PUCCINI, GIACOMO. Fragment of an Autograph Letter Signed, "Giacomo," including only the last two pages, to his wife Elvira, in Italian, remarking that Armani knows the opera and is in Genoa, noting that all the artists know each other, complaining that he has to buy new socks because she has packed so few, and adding that he is preparing to be photographed. 2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, "Grand Hotel Hungaria" stationery. With the original envelope. Budapest, 12 February 1910 [from postmark]
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". . . Armani was engaged [to perform] who is in Genoa and who knows the opera, and all the artists already know one another so there is no great need of my presence, but I will go there because it . . . will be a pleasant trip . . . ."