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ETTORE "TED" DEGRAZIA - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 1973 - HFSID 295993

Extending wishes for a good 1974, on a note card featuring one of his Native American children Autograph Note signed: "Hello Baby/Have a good/1974/Ted DeGrazia/1973", 4½x6 card folded, 9x6 unfolded. Also signed "Love from/The Crew/Las Girls".

Price: $200.00

Condition: Fine condition
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ETTORE "TED" DeGRAZIA
Extending wishes for a good 1974, on a note card featuring one of his Native American children
Autograph Note signed: "Hello Baby/Have a good/1974/Ted DeGrazia/1973", 4½x6 card folded, 9x6 unfolded. Also signed "Love from/The Crew/Las Girls". Front of card reproduces his original oil painting, "Pima Indian Drummer Boy." Painter and sculptorEttore "Ted" DeGrazia (1909-1982), the son of an immigrant Italian miner in the Arizona Territory, played trumpet and led a small band before becoming so impressed with Mexican muralist Diego Rivera that he signed on as Rivera's apprentice. In the 1940s, DeGrazia began selling his own artwork in Tuscon, creating what grew to become the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Historic District. His pastel paintings feature the American Southwest, and especially Native American children. His "Los Niños" was featured as a UNICEF Christmas card in 1960. In 1976, incensed by inheritance taxes which would appraise his art at current market prices (leaving his heirs with a large debt but no money to pay it), DeGrazia burned 100 of his paintings in protest. (Legend has it that he buried many art works, inspiring treasure hunts since his death.) Slightly worn and soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.

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