E. Caruso. Signed photograph and an art deco compact showing a caricature of Caruso, early C20th

Enrico Caruso

Photographic portrait, inscribed and signed to Sybil Seligman, with a silver and enamelled art deco compact showing a caricature of Caruso

Photographic portrait, signed and inscribed on the image to Sybil Seligman ("Alla cara e amabile amica Sybil Sinceramente Enrico Caruso Londra 1913"), 22.5 x 16.5, by H. Mishkin of New York, 1913, a few marks and tiny stains

Silver and enamelled art deco compact showing a caricature of Caruso, c.6.8 x 5.4 x 2cm, by Lacloche Frères, original case, Paris and London, early twentieth century, minute crack to enamel at lower left-hand corner of compact lid

Although chiefly remembered as an important friend of Puccini, Sybil Seligman, née Beddington (1868-1936), from whom the photograph and compact ultimately derive, was also a close friend of Caruso.

PROVENANCE

By descent to the present owners.