Chaliapin, Fyodor

Large caricature by Enrico Caruso (14 ½ x 13 in.; 368 x 330 mm, overall),  executed in black ink, signed and inscribed: ``Enrico Caruso, Paris, 1912'', on the verso of a sheet of headed notepaper of the Hotel Grand, Paris; some creasing affecting the signature, otherwise in good condition.  Mounted, framed and glazed

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A caricature of one legendary singer by another. Chaliapin was in Paris with Diaghilev's company at this time.