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L'Hippodrome.

Sold for $3,000 at Poster Auctions International Inc on May 3, 2009.

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Lot description

Maindron properly calls Orazi "the master lithographer" and this is one of his best posters. It is for a show at the new, ornately roofed Hippodrome (the old one was open-air) on the Boulevard de Clichy in Paris. The advertised event recreates a barbarian invasion featuring a flamboyantly bedecked horse ridden by a pagan princess. Orazi places her front and center in all her saber-rattling splendor. The mosaic-like approach was used by Orazi in an earlier poster for Sarah Bernhardt's "Theodora" (see PAI-XLII, 43). This is the larger, 2-sheet format.

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