(BLACK MEMORABILIA) VARGAS MRS ALFONSO CONCEPCION The Pralin

Sale 2239 - Lot 181

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(BLACK MEMORABILIA.) VARGAS, MRS. ALFONSO CONCEPCION. The Praline Woman and the Chicken Man. Two figures made of cloth and beeswax, five inches high on their original wooden pedestals; the tips of the fingers of the left hand of the Praline Woman are chipped; otherwise in exceptional condition. Included is a specially made lucite display case. New Orleans, circa 1920s-1930s

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These exquisitely detailed figures are the creation of Mrs. Alfonso Concepcion Vargas, a longtime resident of New Orleans. Mrs. Vargas stated in a 1933 newspaper interview that the figures "are my own ideas of the characters that I have seen on the streets of New Orleans since I was a girl." Mrs. Vargas was seventy-four at the time of the interview. Rarely seen in such good condition