Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 433

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MUSIC.) BAKER, JOSEPHINE. Follies Bergeres 1937. Super Follies. Program with a cut-out cover in the shape of a star, partially revealing a topless Josephine; when opened she is totally nude. Copiously illustrated with an extravagant double-page centerfold showing the entire company with a life sized elephant. 40 pages, original wrappers in excellent condition. Paris, 1937
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One of the last years of the Follies Bergeres as they were before WWII, these programs are increasingly scarce. Germany invaded France in the Spring of 1940, and Josephine Baker became a member of the underground.