Bust-length portrait etching and drypoint of the composer by the German artist Waldemar Pech (1911-?)

  • SIGNED
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By MASCAGNI, Pietro 1863-1945
N.p., N.d.. 120 x 95 mm. plus margins. Printed on wove paper. Signed by the artist in pencil at lower right. A very good impression.

Slightly worn and creased; small stain to lower edge. Mascagni was an Italian composer and conductor, best-known for his one-act masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana, "enormously successful from its first performance at the Costanzi in Rome in 1890. From then on Mascagni spent the rest of his long career treating a wide variety of subjects." Michele Girardi in Grove Music Online.

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