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Portrait sketch of Ferruccio Busoni

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Benedikt F. Dolbin

Portrait sketch of Ferruccio Busoni

20th century
11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (292 x 231 mm)
Pen and black on paper.
1974.42:13

Purchased on the Cary Fund.

Notes
One of 86 portrait sketches of musicians including the likenesses of most of the leading composers, conductors, and instrumentalists of the first half of the twentieth century. All were done from life, and many appeared in Musical America.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist in pencil at upper right, "Ferruccio Busoni", and signed at lower right "Dolbin"; at lower left in pencil in another hand, "B.F. Dolbin".
Classification
Century Drawings