Acrylic on Canvas

Signature on the back

60 x 60 x 1.5 cm.

23.5 x 23.5 x 0.59 inch.

Unique

 

The French-Speaking Icons Collection

Paris, 1925. Joséphine Baker walks onto the stage of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and stops the city cold.

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Her "danse sauvage" in La Revue Nègre made her famous overnight. The banana skirt at the Folies-Bergère made her immortal. She had arrived from America bringing everything Paris didn't know it was missing, and Paris never recovered.

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She became a French citizen in 1937. She adopted 12 children.
She called them her Rainbow Tribe.