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Original illustration for the cover of Piano, Greatest Hits, the 1994 compact disc produced by BMG Classics for their RCA Victor Greatest Hits series.
Ink on board, measuring 19.5 x 25.5 inches, sight size. Signed “Hirschfeld” lower right image. Dark inking over cream board in fine condition; artist’s faint pencil tracings visible beneath ink strokes in some areas. Archivally matted and framed by Michelson Gallery.
Provenance: The Al Hirschfeld Foundation Archives; Mo and Cher Willems, purchased from the above.
The original illustration for Hirschfeld’s iconic portrait of the great Classical composer. Rendering him with elegant features, long, graceful fingers, and eighteenth-century court attire, Hirschfeld perfectly captured the popular idealization of Mozart with his own inimitable flair. The confident and richly inked lines and faint evidence of his pencil base sketch display his masterly technique and the handwork unique to original illustration. The image first appeared on the cover of the popular RCA Victor Greatest Hits series and was reproduced for commercial purposes including posters, T-shirts, and print articles.
Hirschfeld’s caricatures of musical figures are as well known as those for the American theater, film, and television. Beginning in the 1930s with the cover for the multiple-album set of Porgy and Bess, he would continue through the next six decades and media evolutions to create over 200 drawings for 78s through CDs, covering such wide-ranging artists from Cole Porter to Aerosmith. In 1991 he began a ten-year relationship with BMG for a series of eighty-five cover illustrations for their discs of jazz and classical figures, vocalists, and conductors. This recording featured pianist Artur Rubinstein performing compositions by Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Mendelssohn, and Rachmaninoff in addition to the second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, which became widely known (and listed there) as the “Elvira Madigan” concerto from its use as the soundtrack in the renowned 1967 Swedish romantic film of the same name.
A spectacular and iconic original ink drawing of Mozart by the most famous caricaturist of the twentieth century.
PRICE ON REQUEST
PRICE ON REQUEST
Original illustration for the cover of Piano, Greatest Hits, the 1994 compact disc produced by BMG Classics for their RCA Victor Greatest Hits series.
Ink on board, measuring 19.5 x 25.5 inches, sight size. Signed “Hirschfeld” lower right image. Dark inking over cream board in fine condition; artist’s faint pencil tracings visible beneath ink strokes in some areas. Archivally matted and framed by Michelson Gallery.
Provenance: The Al Hirschfeld Foundation Archives; Mo and Cher Willems, purchased from the above.
The original illustration for Hirschfeld’s iconic portrait of the great Classical composer. Rendering him with elegant features, long, graceful fingers, and eighteenth-century court attire, Hirschfeld perfectly captured the popular idealization of Mozart with his own inimitable flair. The confident and richly inked lines and faint evidence of his pencil base sketch display his masterly technique and the handwork unique to original illustration. The image first appeared on the cover of the popular RCA Victor Greatest Hits series and was reproduced for commercial purposes including posters, T-shirts, and print articles.
Hirschfeld’s caricatures of musical figures are as well known as those for the American theater, film, and television. Beginning in the 1930s with the cover for the multiple-album set of Porgy and Bess, he would continue through the next six decades and media evolutions to create over 200 drawings for 78s through CDs, covering such wide-ranging artists from Cole Porter to Aerosmith. In 1991 he began a ten-year relationship with BMG for a series of eighty-five cover illustrations for their discs of jazz and classical figures, vocalists, and conductors. This recording featured pianist Artur Rubinstein performing compositions by Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Mendelssohn, and Rachmaninoff in addition to the second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, which became widely known (and listed there) as the “Elvira Madigan” concerto from its use as the soundtrack in the renowned 1967 Swedish romantic film of the same name.
A spectacular and iconic original ink drawing of Mozart by the most famous caricaturist of the twentieth century.
PRICE ON REQUEST