![[PORGY AND BESS] VERTES, MAURICE. [Ruby Elzy as Serena in "Porgy and Bess"].](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/700/1358700.jpg?itok=oylXO0RQ)
Lot Details
Lot 169
[PORGY AND BESS] VERTES, MAURICE. [Ruby Elzy as Serena in "Porgy and Bess"].
Drawing in pencil, signed and with a presentation in the hand of the artist "À Miss Elizabeth Meyer." Additionally signed in pencil by George Gershwin, with a four-bar quotation from "My Man's Gone Now" (Serena's lament, and Elzy's great role in that opera) and DuBose Heyward, dated September 8, 1935. 10 3/4 x 6 3/4 (27.5 x 17 cm); pencil on thin tissue paper. A small restored tear just over the Vertes presentation, minor soiling, overall in attractive condition.
A superb presentation, combining a fine drawing of Ruby Elzy in "Porgy and Bess" with the autographs of the composer and the lyricist of that opera. Elzy was an acclaimed African-American operatic soprano, who played Serena in the original production some 800 times, before her tragically young death (at the age of 35, following an operation to remove a benign tumor), shortly before she would have played in the starring role of Aida.
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