Jun 25, 2024 - Sale 2674

Sale 2674 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
HIS VISITING CARD TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILYICH. Autograph Note Signed, "P. Tschaikowsky," to an unnamed recipient [Czech soprano Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová], in German, in pencil, on his visiting card: "[P.I. Tschaikowsky] is very sorry that he has not yet seen or heard you." The visiting card, printed with his name in Cyrillic characters. 2½x4 inches; remnants of mounting overall verso, faint scattered soiling. Np, [26-27 September 1892]
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Tchaikovsky had visited Prague in September of 1892 in order to attend the first performance outside Russia of his opera The Queen of Spades, conducted by Adolf Cech, in early October.
Published in Russian in P.I. Tchaikovsky. Complete Works, eds. Davydova and Labutina (Moscow, 1981), 17: 259.