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213 - CURIOSA. Album titled “Love Through the Keyhole” from the brothel “Le Chabanais” in Paris.
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CURIOSA. Album titled “Love Through the Keyhole” from the brothel “Le Chabanais” in Paris. Album containing 38 photographs, circa 1890–1900. Nude women, couples, threesomes, lesbianism. Album containing 38 citrate prints. Cover features a color photograph of the owner mounted inside the cover. Images: approximately 15 x 11 cm; album: 22 x 20 cm. (Photos may only be viewed in person during the tour.) Loose covers, slipcase. These photographs are mounted on tabs in a leather album with gold braiding. Nicknamed the “five-star brothel,” it featured sumptuous salons and thematically decorated rooms. It was frequented by the artistic and political elite of Paris, as well as by foreign royalty, notably the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), who owned a custom-made love seat and a copper bathtub there. Provenance: former Michel Simon collection.
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COLLECTION OF A THEATER AND FILM SET DESIGNER. A collection of photographs, including an erotic album from the Le Chabanais brothel circa 1890 and an album from the Théâtre de la Mode in 1946. A collection of Japanese prints and postcards. Books, old papers, and banknotes. Numerous gouache paintings of costumes (by Edel, Choubrac, Zinoview, Minon, Tom Keogh, Betout, Fost, and Jenny Carré...) and two gouaches by MAYO from Marcel Carné’s legendary film *Les Enfants du Paradis*, along with movie posters...Auction house
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