Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 459

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(MUSIC AND THEATRE--BALLET.) Photographs of Jean-Léon Destiné and His Afro-Haitian Dance Company. 44 photographs, mostly 8 x 10, a few smaller, together with three copies of a large illustrated flyer. Vp, circa 1960's-1970's

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Jean-Léon Destiné (1918-2013), a Haitian dancer and choreographer, was an early exponent of the Afro-Caribbean dance and the culture of Candomble, Santeria, or Vou Dou, associated with it. He worked with Katherine Dunham in the 1940's.