Lot of 13 vintage photos of noted concert pianists, ranging in size from 6.5 x 9 to 10 x 8, individually affixed to a same-size cardstock mount, each signed and inscribed in ink or fountain pen by the pictured piano player: Simon Barere, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, Alexander Brailowsky, Percy Grainger, Myra Hess, Josef Hofman (2), Vladimir Horowitz, Pierre Lubosjutz and Genia Nemenoff, Guiomar Novaes, Arthur Rubinstein, Rudolf Serkin, and Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin. In overall very good to fine condition, with surface loss to Brailowsky.
From the autographed portrait collection of Harry Friedgut, the first managing director of the New York City Center of Music and Drama. A champion of New Jersey’s musical arts, Friedgut also served as the first managing director of the Griffith Music Foundation and as the Vice President and Business Manager of the Essex County Symphony Society, through which he directed the Town Hall series and organized the very successful summer stadium concerts.
