PABLO CASALS - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 1952 - HFSID 251564
Price: $650.00
PABLO CASALS
Small 3½x5½ b/w bust photo by P. Ribas of cellist Pablo Casals signed
"Cordially" in blue ink in 1952
Inscribed photograph signed "To Lionel Ancoin/Cordially/Pablo
Casals/1952". B/w, 3½x5½ overall, 3½x4¾ image, one surface, printed on
cardstock. Photo by P. Ribas of Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, with black
ink photo credit stamp on verso. Casals lived in Prades for much of his exile
from Spain. He also headed the Prades Festival - originally organized for the
bicentennial of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music Casals loved to play - from
1950 to 1956. It's now know as the Festival Pablo Casals. Casals
(1876-1973, born Pau Casals in Vendrell, Spain) achieved worldwide renown
as a violoncellist, conductor and composer. Casals was born near Barcelona,
Spain, and was a patriot opposed to tyranny. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
established General Francisco Franco as dictator of a bloody totalitarian state.
Casals was so opposed to the Franco regime that he declined to appear in
countries that recognized the totalitarian Spanish government, making an
exception when he took part in a concert of chamber music in the White House
on Nov. 13, 1961, at the invitation of President Kennedy, whom he admired.
Lightly toned, silvered, creased and bowed. Light impressions on image.
Otherwise in fine condition.
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