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[SAND PAINTING] REGINA. TWO LITHOGRAPHS FOR THE SAND PAINTING ACT OF LA REGINA. Paris: L. Damare, ca. 1916. Pair of colorful stone lithographs advertising the unusual act of Sand Painting, in which the performer created detailed pictures by pouring quantities of colored sand onto large boards resting on easels before her. In one image, Regina’s portrait appears behind a palette filled with a rainbow of colored sand, and in the other, she is captured full-length in the midst of the act. Signed in the image by the designer and printer, Damare. The larger, linen backed, 46¼ × 30". The smaller image framed and glazed and not examined out of frame.
These are the only posters we have been able to trace advertising this most specialized of specialty acts allied with conjuring. Typical sand painting acts were akin to lightning cartooning, rag pictures, and pictures made of colored smoke; the denouement of the routine was the revelation of the image, which developed almost imperceptibly before the spectators. A few deft finishing touches revealed the final image, though in the case of each sand painting, lifting the easel on which the board rested resulted in an instant and very visible erasing of the entire scene.