VARTENISSIAN, Shakeh increase_price Photo by Heinrich Hass

Photo by Heinrich Hass

all in very good or excellent condition

February 22nd

Nice black-and-white photograph signed by him with a short sentiment

this is probably a second generation print on shiny photo paper

VARTENISSIAN, Shakeh increase_price Photo by Heinrich HassSoprano (1924 2003), most likely of Armenian origin but variously reported as of Turkish, Syrian, or Lebanese descent. Signed photograph, shown in role (possibly Massenet's Manon), inscribed and dated in 1957. Stamped on verso by photographer Sedge Le Blang, Metropolitan Opera, New York. Size is 8 x 10 inches, small creases on top left and right, otherwise in excellent condition.