For sale: The portrait Mahler signed for Schoenberg

For sale: The portrait Mahler signed for Schoenberg

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norman lebrecht

July 22, 2015

A hard-up veterinary student is selling on ebay a portrait that Gustav Mahler inscribed to Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna in 1907. The provenance is complicated. It appears the portrait belonged to the student’s grandfather, Abraham Fraser, who obtained it from his teacher, Joseph Schmid, a friend of Schoenberg’s.

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The price? A mere $150,000.

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