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Original. Mounted on acid free archival linen.
The Great Alzanas, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey.
The Great Alzanas world renowed high wire daredevils. (Signed with double "F") by the artist. The high wire act shows a bare chested man with the balance beam riding on the high wire while balancing two ladies suspended from the center hubs of the bicycle. This is an early Ringling Brothers Bros and Barnum and & Bailey original poster.
(The Great Alzana, the high-wire artist ballyhooed as ''The Most Dare devilish Human Ever to Skirt Eternity's Brink,'' whose tricks were so dangerous that New York State passed a law to keep him from working without a net.) Away from the spotlight, his name was Harold Davis. The Great Alzana replaced the great Karl Wallenda as the top-billed act for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey at its New York opening in 1947. |
