This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/26/2022
Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Five Photographs of Houdini and Felecien Trewey. Circa 1920. Series of silver print snapshots of the two great magicians posing before a building, most likely in France, Trewey standing behind a motion picture camera in two of the images. In one photo, Mrs. Trewey stands between the two men. Approximately 3 ¾ x 2 ¼” each. Mounted to old linen in varying orientations. Trewey (1848 – 1920) was a multitalented performer, who excelled at juggling, music, acrobatics, pantomime, magic, chapeaugraphy, troublewit, hand shadows, and other variety arts. So popular was his style of performing that the phrase “Treweyism” became a widely used phrase in France. A close friend of the Lumiere brothers, he appeared in some of their first films, and was an early exhibitor of the brothers’ groundbreaking motion pictures, making the two images offered here, of Trewey and Houdini posing with the camera all the more important.