Autographs by famous people. Hand signed photos, documents, postcards
Pablo Picasso: Hand-signed page, depicting „Jacqueline and Picasso“, from the book „Picasso: Women“, published in 1964. Only a limited number of the copies have been signed by Picasso.
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Signed: Picasso 64
23,5 x 30 cm. Good condition ( minor creasing at the very edges of margins left and right).
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Zino Davidoff portrait photo with authentic signature.
The photo depicts Zino Davidoff in business suite with one of his famous cigars in hand.
From this family developed a brand which was to represent the essence of perfect enjoyment. Signed “Z. Davidoff” in very bold black pen.
9 x 12.4 cm, good condition.
Zino Davidoff was born in 1906 in Kiev, Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine to a Jewish family. He was the eldest of four children born to tobacco merchant, Henri Davidoff.
In 1970, Zino sold his small but highly successful tobacco shop in Geneva to the Max Oettinger Company. Zino stayed on as Davidoff’s ambassador until his death in 1994 at the age of 87.
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Juan Miro: Hand-signed print which was part of a book, published as limited edition of 30 books.
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The book has been published by the editor and gallery owner Adrien Maeght, who also published books about Chagall, Max Ernst, George Braques and partly Picasso ).
The catalogue has been published on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition in Zürich in1972. The catalogue was published in a limited edition of 30, contained 2 hand-signed lithographs and this hand-signed print.
Size: 46 x 31 cm ( 18 x 12,3 inches), good condition. Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893 –1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his birth city in 1975.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.
Herbert von Karajan: Hand-signed Photo-print (Photo Lauterbach). No Postcard.
Signed with a white pen. Early autograph from app. 1960-70.
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Size: 10,2 x 14,6 cm (4,1 x 5,8 inches). Light knock at lower right corner.
Herbert von Karajan (1908 –1989) was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years.
Although his work was not universally admired, he is generally considered to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time, and he was a dominant figure in European classical music from the 1960s until his death.
Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate he was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records.
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Legendary tenor Fritz Wunderlich as Tamino. Photo by Fayer, hand-signed by Fritz Wunderlich with a quote of The Magic Flute: Ach wie herrlich. Herzlich Fritz Wunderlich.
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Size: 9 x 14 c. Good condition.
Friedrich “Fritz” Karl Otto Wunderlich (1930 – 1966) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and various lieder. He died in an accident when he was only 35.
Wunderlich achieved the highest distinction within the German repertory. Of special importance is a recording of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, conducted by Karl Böhm, in which Wunderlich gave a critically acclaimed performance as Prince Tamino, opposite baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the role of Papageno. There is also a live performance of The Magic Flute recorded in 1960 at the Salzburg festival, and several recordings as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Recordings also exist of lesser-known Mozart operas such as Zaide and La Finta Giardiniera.
Wunderlich’s crystal-clear voice, exquisite diction, and intelligent, restrained interpretation also led him to impressive renditions of the lieder cycles of Schubert and Schumann with pianist Hubert Giesen. His famous recording of Schumann’s Dichterliebe remains a gold standard of this genre. Many tenors since have emulated Wunderlich’s interpretation of this cycle.
Charlie Chaplin: Large, early portrait photo, signed at the lower margin: „Best Wishes Charlie Chaplin“.
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The photo is 7 x 10,3 inches ( 17,7 x 26,2 cm ) and mounted on cardboard. The signature is slightly smeared at a few spots, otherwise fine condition,
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (1889 –1977), known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era. He became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War.
His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.
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Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. Warner Bros photo from 1972.
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8 x 10 inches (20,5 x 25 cm), good condition.
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, (born 1922) is an English actor and singer.
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Marc Chagall portrait photo print, matted, hand signed with pencil.
Size: 30 x 40 cm incl passe-partout, very good condition
Marc Zaharovich Chagall Марк Захарович Шага́л (1887 –1985) was a Russian artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century.
He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
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Peter Anders as Saenger in Rosenkavalier, hand-signed.
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10 x 14,5 cm, good condition.
Peter Anders (July 1, 1908 – September 10, 1954) was a German operatic tenor who sang a wide range of parts in the German, Italian, and French repertories.
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Hermann Hesse Autograph from 1949: Private print of a booklet „An einen jungen Kuenstler“ (For a Young Artist).
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14,7 x 20,8 cm, 12 pages, clean inside, some aging at outside cover which can be easily cleaned, traces of vertical bend.
Hermann Hesse (1877 – 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual’s search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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