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Portrait sketch of Richard Strauss

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Benedikt F. Dolbin

Portrait sketch of Richard Strauss

ca. 1926-1927
9 x 11 15/16 inches (228 x 303 mm)
Pen and black ink over pencil on paper.
1974.42:69

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 verso: "Richard Strauss with Hugo von Hofmannsthal around a coffee house table at Salzburg / (ca 1926/27)".
Classification
Century Drawings