Poster High
Catalog Information: 554 lots with images | View lots
Date: May 3, 2009
Auction House:
Poster Auctions International, Inc
Location:
601 West 26th Street
Suite 1370
New York, NY
USA
10001
Phone: 212.787.4000
Fax: 212.604.9175
Email: info@posterauctions.com
Viewing Notes:
Viewing April 17th to May 2nd Mon-Fri: 9-5 Sat-Sun: 11-6
Lot 1: Jean Gaertner-Ecuyer du Cirque Napoleon.
Though he was clearly a master of equestrian daring do-from tight rope and stilt walking to flaming hoop jumps to bareback ballet (in classical cross-dressing mode, no less)-surprisingly little background information could be uncovered regarding the [...more]
Lot 2: Folies-Bergère/Nala Damajanti.
"Louis Léon Martin wrote, referring to the music hall: 'The entire world is at your disposal: Hawaii with its nostalgic guitars, the Orient and its disquieting equilibrists and jugglers, America with its eccentrics, its girls and dancers, and India w [...more]
Lot 3: Fogg's Ferry/"One Too Many".
A popular touring show in the late-19th century, "Fogg's Ferry" left behind few plot specifics apart from what can be pieced together from the surviving evidentiary lithographs, all of which appear to have been printed by the Enquirer Company of Cinc [...more]
Lot 4: Folies-Bergère/Yvette Violette.
At the turn-of-the-twentieth-century, the most popular entertainment figures inspired a slew of impostors: there were would-be Buffalo Bills, faux Loie Fullers and, here, an Yvette Guilbert look-alike with a similar sounding singsong name. Prettier t [...more]
Lot 5: American Art Calendar Co.
American seamstress Elizabeth Griscom Ross (1752-1836), or simply Betsy as the Philadelphia native is best known in the annals of popular history, makes an astutely colonial impact in this promotion for the American Art Calendar Company. Though the t [...more]
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