1920 Spectacular Finale Tableau, FRENCH CABARET Print - Fantastic, Elegant Costumes - Semi Nude All Girl Revue, Tres Sexy!

Treasures from THE THEATER COLLECTION at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 16, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 16 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

With the Hollywood and Broadway versions of Weimar Republic era gritty German cabaret and the Egon Schiele-ish artworks we associate almost exclusively with the Kurl Weill style and songbook, we sometimes forget that an elegant, big budget semi nude revue was a staple of the stage in Germany (see our amazing Haus Vaterland Cabaret print) and in Paris.  

Copied with remarkable success in the otherwise prudish United States by legendary impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Ziggy did manage to rob us of the magic and delights of the female form in motion, and presented his gals in nearly frozen tableau, leaving the shake dancing to the Burly-Q houses.

This fabulous gem of a print was the centerfold of a rather saucy French magazine, circa 1920. While there may or may not be artistic license taken here, I need but remember what my compatriots were doing, constantly, with zero budget in the East Village in the early and mid 80s to see these as the natural extension of wild vision and a bigger allowance for costumes.

Note that this was one of the more difficult restorations in our catalog. Large and small tears, faded colors and acid burns, a few small pieces where the staples were actually missing entirely. Much clenched teeth politeness, shall we say, over several hours between me and my digital restoration specialist. The results were, I believe, worth it...

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

SHIPPING

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.