Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ENTERTAINMENT.) Group of Josephine Baker ephemera. 19 items, condition generally strong. Various places, circa 1930-1950
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Set of 6 advertising cards, each with a different photograph of Baker: "Josephine Baker chante J'ai deux amours . . . Paris . . . Pernod fils."

Group of 10 postcards depicting Baker in photo or caricature, most unused, one addressed in Hungarian to a recipient in Budapest.

Early photograph of Baker by Walery of Paris, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches.

Sheet music for "J'ai deux Amours, Fox-Trot Chanté par Joséphine Baker," with her caricature on cover, 1930.

16-page program for an American comeback tour with text by Bob Wachsman. Hollywood, CA: Popular Programs, circa 1950.