Original Photograph

Striking and unusual original Harcourt of Paris photograph of Belgian violinist, a child prodigy who became internationally known as a teenager and whose virtuosity and pure lyrical expression earned her a place among the top international violinists.  Small crease to right edge, else fine condition.  7 x 9.4 inches (18 x 24 cm.). 

Lola Bobesco was born in Craiova, Romania, and began her career as a child prodigy, giving her first recital there at the age of 6 with her father, composer and conductor Aurel Bobesco.  She studied in Paris with Marcel Chailley and Jules Bucher, also taking lessons with George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud.  She became known internationally after appearing in Paris in 1936 at age 17 with the Colonne Orchestra under the baton of Paul Paray.  As an adult, she became professor at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and the Conservatory of Liège, and left a body of recordings with Decca, Columbia, and others.

“In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologie (1957). (22801)

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