Oct 26, 2006 - Sale 2090

Sale 2090 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ROLAND (Eduard KRAUSE 1872-1946). The Great Roland. The Most Mysterious Butterfly Disappears in Full View of the Audience without Apparatus or Covering. Six-sheet color lithograph; linen-backed. 88 1/4x79 1/4 inches (224x201 cm). Central image of a beautiful woman dressed as a butterfly, with a portrait of Roland upper left. Moody Bros. Birmingham. Regd. No. 19644.

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The butterfly is probably his assistant, who went on to stage her own magic performances as Mademoiselle Margo.