Federico BELTRAN-MASSES (1885-1949, Spanish painter)... Lot 264

Federico BELTRAN-MASSES (1885-1949, Spanish painter) / Original heliogravure print on tinted paper by François-Antoine VIZZAVONA (1876-1961, photographer and publisher), of his famous painting "Maja Marquesa", a 1915 canvas depicting a languid Spanish aristocrat, Beltran-Masses dedicated and signed it in pencil in the margin to "l'amie étrange et exquise Mademoiselle Irène Fanshawe" (named painter and publisher, painting captioned) / Joint: original pencil drawing on tracing paper by the print's dedicatee, Russian painter Irène Fanshawe (1912-1989), captioned "d'après Beltran-Masses" (32.5 x 25 cm)