Lot Essay
Cleo de Merode, an infamous dancer, who was elected the loveliest of the 130 Folies Bergeres "Starlets"
Details
Mlle Cleo de Merode,
a chromolithographic fan with a portrait of the dancer, within an Art Nouveau frame of mauve and yellow flowers, published by Choumara, 18, rue du Temple, Paris, with wooden sticks - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1897; and Champagne Ayala, a chromolithographic advertising mask fan (2)
a chromolithographic fan with a portrait of the dancer, within an Art Nouveau frame of mauve and yellow flowers, published by Choumara, 18, rue du Temple, Paris, with wooden sticks - 11in. (28cm.), circa 1897; and Champagne Ayala, a chromolithographic advertising mask fan (2)
Literature
The second fan is illustrated plate 65. p. 109, From Court to Confectionary, Paul van Saanen and Peter Greenhalgh, Lausanne 1994