Portrait drawing Franz Lehár Drawn from Life

by Franz LehÁR

$900 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

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343 x 250 mm. Pen, ink, and black chalk on a light yellow background wash. Signed by Dolbin just below the portrait. Lehár was the leading operetta composer of the 20th century, being primarily responsible for giving the genre renewed vitality. His most successful operetta, Die lustige Witwe, has established a lasting place in the opera as well as the operetta repertory and, along with Offenbach and Johann Strauss II, Lehár

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