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The Darras Brothers | Gymnastic acrobats from Germany

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 USD

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The Darras Brothers

Brüder Darras. Gymnastichen-acrobatische Neuheit. Berlin: Louis Wagner, ca. 1910 (no. 43)


Color lithograph poster (37 5/8 x 27 5/8 in.; 956 x 702 mm). Fold creases, chipped with loss at top of central vertical crease, some wrinkling, backed with linen, linen with the stamp of Ritsko van Vliet's Historisch Variété Archief. 


A poster from early in the career of these German gymnasts and acrobats, who later would perform in the United States with both the Hagenbeck-Wallace and Barnum & Bailey circuses. The handsome poster presents the brothers twice: they stand at the sides of the poster in red swallowtail coats in front of an arch incongruously placed over a river gorge. Within the arch, the brothers are depicted performing, one balancing on his head on a trapeze holding a set of rings from which the other does a back lever.


REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 315

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