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Ferdinand Bac, La Loie Fuller / Aux Folies Bergere

Sold for $3,500 at Poster Auctions International Inc on Nov 12, 2024.

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Ferdinand Bac La Loie Fuller / Aux Folies Bergere 1892 58.75 h x 42.375 w in (149 x 108 cm) This is the poster for Loie Fuller's inaugural Paris performance, opening November 5, 1892, at the Folies-Bergere. "Paris had never experienced anything quite like the Loie craze that followed. Throughout the 1892-93 season she attracted unheard-of-crowds to the Folies-Bergere. She enthralled not only its usual patrons but many others who seldom if ever had been inside such a lowbrow music hall. In doing so, she helped to transform the Folies-Bergere, giving it a new respectability, and she made herself one of the city's top celebrities" (Loie Fuller/Current, p. 50). This is the larger format. Imp. Lemercier, Paris Literature: Loie Fuller, 5; Takashimaya, 29; Pessis & Crepineau, p. 29; PAI-LXXXV, 186 This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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