Large Art Print - SAHARET - Elegant International Vaudeville Star - Dancer Extraordinaire - fin de siècle - Gilded Age

Treasures from THE FILM & THEATRE COLLECTION at The Willing Mind.  By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.  Print size 16 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a standard 16 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

Saharet was the stage name of a young lady born in the late 19th century in Australia, and emigrated to the States where she recreated herself as an exotic beauty who could delight a theater full of fans with her vivacious terpsichorean revelry.

Not accompanied by any Earth shattering scandal to enrich our theatrical history books, her career was short but spectacular both here and in Europe.  She is little remembered today, but the more I seek details, the more images I've found of her that draw you into her big eyed beauty and the promise that here is a life being lived with real vigah.  Lustfully passionate German painter Franz Stuck immortalized that look in a painting, yet the postcards and handbills of the era featuring Saharet find that same spirit, that same passion exploding through the camera lens.

We acquired this postcard some time back and only recently moved forward with its restoration. The stamp left in place on the front was a conscious decision here in the studio.  Everyone has known that face, that expression, in someone they love, even if it was as fleeting as late day sun landing on a certain place in your boudoir.

The accompanying images show the finished print unframed, laid out across an old Berea bedspread, and the others are the raw card we were working from.  We do have fun here, I must say.......................

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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.