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Manns, Willy | The Death Ride

Auction Closed

October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Manns, Willy

Circus Corty-Althoff. Der Todesritt. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1903 (no. 2773) 


Color lithograph poster (26 3/4 x 36 1/2 in.; 680 x 927 mm). Light fold creases. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas.


A striking poster from the heyday of Germany's Circus Corty-Althoff, one of the largest circuses in Europe at the fin de siècle, depicting a daredevil rider jumping an obstacle while both he and his mount are blindfolded. According to other Friedländer promotional posters, Willy Manns also performed in an elephant act.


REFERENCE:

Exemplars, pp. 140–41

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