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Ba 163

The Travelling Circus

etching (1913)
Circus performers give an impromptu concert in front of a circle of trailers. In the background a big top with a Grand Cirque banner.
Only state, 260 mm × 90 mm.
Printed at 130 impressions.
Boutitie 108, BPL 2, EB 6 ?, EG 74.

Priv. coll.
Thus described by G. Geffroy (Exhibition of the Hodebert Gallery, 1922, Introduction): It shows by a halt, the mixture of beings with musical instruments, hunting horn, guitar, trombone, drum, among which laughs a dwarf playing the accordion, quivering gypsies, agitating drums of Basque.