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Plate metal of 25x35cms. The Theatre of the Champs Elysées was inaugurated in 1912. Its site in a district of hotels and dressmakers more than of spectacles, had up to that point served it and it lost money when Rolf de Maré bought it in 1925. Of Pond its intention announced to transform it into Variety. The painter cubist Fernand Leger, friend of Daven, precisely had just seen the negro exposure of art to the Museum of Decorative Arts and advised to him to present a spectacle entirely carried out by Blacks.
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