There is a disembodied head beside a smoking brazier, and the man in the red tailcoat is looking at the woman floating above him instead.
Adolph Friedländer of Hamburg lithographed the poster. The St. Pauli firm produced over 9,000 entertainment posters between 1872 and 1935. Servais Le Roy was born in Spa, Belgium, and died in Keansburg, New Jersey. He performed with his wife Mary Ford, stage name Talma, and with a series of performers playing the Bosco buffoon role.
With Talma, he first performed the Asrah levitation in London in 1914.
On the poster
A magician in a red tailcoat stands arms-wide on a cadmium-yellow stage, gazing up at a woman in a black gown who floats horizontally above him. To his left a smoking brazier rests beside the disembodied head and a large hoop. The yellow ground is flat and the figure sits symmetrically, with no stage background behind him.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.





