Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE DUKAS, PAUL. Two items: Autograph Musical Quotation dated and Signed * Autograph Letter Signed. The quotation, 7 bars from his The Sorcerer's Apprentice, notated on a hand-drawn stave. 3x5 inches; faint stain at lower right corner. The letter, to an unnamed recipient ("Dear Sir and friend'), in French, apologizing for having missed his visit, noting that his own daughter's health is improved, and inviting him to visit again. Signed vertically at right edge. 1 page, small 8vo; horizontal folds. Both matted together with portrait and framed. Np, 22 August 1921; "38 r[ue] Singer" [Paris], 21 March 1922

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From the Jimmy Van Heusen Collection.