Poster advertising a Josephine Baker performance at the Folies Bergère: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A poster advertising a Josephine Baker performance at the Folies Bergère of Un Vent De Folie. An illustration of Baker is a center. Baker is featured upside-down, wearing green gloves, pearls, a green and white bra, and green tights with bells and red fringe. Next to the drawing is the illustrators mark: [Ranson]. Text at the top and bottom of the poster reads: [Folies- Bergère / Joséphine Baker / Hyper-Revue / Un Vent De Folie / Jombart Fres Imp. Asnières]. To the left of the illustration there are two French postage stamps. Both of the postage stamps have a blue ink stamp over them that reads: ANNULE]. The back of the poster has two inscriptions of a number.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1927
• Printed by: Jombart Fres Imp. Asnieres, French
• Illustrated by: Gontran Ranson, French, 1891 - 1977
• Subject of: Josephine Baker, American, 1906 - 1975
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (folded): 24 3/16 × 16 in. (61.4 × 40.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (unfolded): 27 5/8 × 16 in. (70.2 × 40.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2016.135.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Jean-Claude Baker
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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