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Benedikt F. Dolbin
Portrait sketch of Béla Bartók
1927
11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches (284 x 222 mm)
Pencil on paper.
1974.42:4
Purchased on the Cary Fund.
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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.
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Inscribed by the artist in pencil at upper right, "Béla Bartók", and signed at lower center with initial "D", and dated at lower left "1927".
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Century Drawings
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