Bidspirit auction | REYS (Câmara). VERA VERGANI. Lisboa.

REYS (Câmara). VERA VERGANI. Lisboa. 1924. - REYS (Câmara) VERA VERGANI . Com ilustrações de Tagarro. Lisboa: Empresa de Publicidade Seara Nova, 1924. 24 pp.: il.; 265 mm. First edition of this brief study dedicated to the Italian actress Vera Vergani. Câmara Reys' text is accompanied by drawings by José Tagarro, which record different attitudes and expressions of the actress, as well as a portrait of the actor Luigi Almirante. The publication documents the visit to Lisbon of one of the leading figures of Italian theatre of the time and constitutes an interesting example of the collaboration between theatre criticism, portraiture and modernist Portuguese illustration. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate