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KURT BAUM - ORIGINAL ART SIGNED 02/1956 CO-SIGNED BY: DOROTHY A. AHRENS - HFSID 155469

He signs a page of pencil drawings of himself in opera roles, also signed by the artist, Dorothy Ahrens. Original Art signed: "Kurt Baum/Febr. 1956", 10¾x13¾ card stock. Also signed by the artist, "D.A. Ahrens/1956"(in ink).

Price: $200.00

Condition: Fine condition
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KURT BAUM
He signs a page of pencil drawings of himself in opera roles, also signed by the artist, Dorothy Ahrens.
Original Art signed: "Kurt Baum/Febr. 1956", 10¾x13¾ card stock. Also signed by the artist, "D.A. Ahrens/1956"(in ink). Five pencil drawings of Baum in opera roles, each captioned and initialed "D.A." by the artist. Drawings show Baum as Don Jose in Carmen, Enzo Grimaldo in La Gioconda, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Samson in Samson et Dalila, and as Andrea Chenier. Portraits upper left: 2¼x2½. Upper right: 2x2¾. Middle: 1½x3¼. Lower left: 2x3. Lower right: 2½x2¼ (one surface). Czechoslovakia's amateur boxing champion in his youth, KURT BAUM (1900-1989) dropped out of medical school to pursue a career as an opera tenor, debuting with the Zurich Opera in 1933. He spent 25 years performing with New York's Metropolitan Opera, beginning in 1941. He had a long singing career, and wrote books about how to preserve one's voice. Artist DOROTHY AHRENS specialized in drawing musicians, popular as well as operatic ones, in the 1940s and 1950s, and asked the stars to autograph these. Lightly stained. Otherwise, fine condition.

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