Prokofiev, Lina - Signed Photo with Sergei Prokofiev 1977 Autographs Singers Lot Fritz Busch conducting the Dresden

Fritz Busch conducting the Dresden State Opera orchestra

dated in Berlin in 1918

75 inches (total mat size)

bold signature in photo as well as in a program from the Met Opera

shown as himself among a group of women

Prokofiev, Lina - Signed Photo with Sergei Prokofiev 1977 Autographs Singers Lot Fritz Busch conducting the DresdenSpanish singer (1897 1989), wife of the famous composer, from 1923 she lived with him until their separation in 1943. Arrested in 1948 for "espionage", Lina spent several years in the Soviet Gulag, later moving to the UK where her younger son Oleg lived. Rare signed photo, inscribed and dated in Boston in 1977, shown next to composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891 1953). A half tone photo, size is 8 x 10 inches, in very good condition.