A woman in a teal kimono rises from the flames of a brazier, summoned by a green-eyed conjurer who looms across the top of the sheet.
The Great Chang was the performing name of Juan Pablo Jesorum, a Panamanian illusionist who had trained as an assistant to The Great Raymond and then toured Europe and the United States. Fak-Hong was his regular co-billed partner through the 1920s and 1930s. Their touring programme was a series of themed magic revues, each with its own poster lithographed in Valencia, Spain: the Oriental Review, the Japanese Review, Hara-Kiri, the Bhuda and others.
This poster is the Oriental Review title from that series.
On the poster
The dark-robed conjurer has a pointed beard and holds a wand above a cloud of smoke. Below him the woman holds a fan, rising above an ornate blue-and-gold brazier. A white rabbit stands in a blue vase at lower left. The palette is warm terracotta red, deep navy and the cold glow of teal.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.
