Lot 366
  • 366

Various Artists

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Various Artists
  • A mixed group of various prints, watercolours, photographs a nd other items relating to Wagner and his operas
comprising:
a group of four monotone lithographs depicting scenes from Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, and Gotterdämmerung;
a bromide silver print of Arno Breker's bust of Richard Wagner, by Charlotte Rolersbach;
a theatre programme for 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg', 8th August 1920;
a pen and ink and pencil drawing of Siegfried and the Dragon, by Albert Repholtz;
an etching depicting Siegfried and the Daughters of the Rhine, by Hans Thoma;
a coloured lithograph of various buildings and gardens, including Villa Wahnfried;
a coloured engraving of Wagner's theatre in Bayreuth;
'The Fates' after H.B. Doyle, a political cartoon, printed and published by T.M. McLean, London 1847;
a pen and ink drawing of Richard Wagner conducting, in a carved giltwood frame;
a theatre programme for the Ring Cycle, Bayreuth, 1906;
a mezzotint of Richard Wagner conducting by Hanfstaengl, after Lazar Binenbaum;
a black and white photograph of Lohengrin, Deutsches Theater Lille, 1917; and
a framed group of ten black and white photographs relating to Richard Wagner, designed as bookplates



German School, late 19th/20th century
A PORTRAIT OF RICHARD WAGNER
Head and shoulders, recto; and moneybags, variously numbered and inscribed with the names of operas, verso. Watercolour on paper, unframed
16½in by 20½in; 45cm by 52cm

Condition

In apparently good condition, (unexamined out of the frames).
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