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A HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR OF PHOEBE LEGERE.
Original watercolor, "Songs of the Blue Angel," unused poster design for Legere's cabaret act, 1991, drybrush and watercolor, 315 x 185 mm, signed and dated in white paint lower left: "Hilary Knight '91,"

5 December 2018, 10:00 EST
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A HILARY KNIGHT WATERCOLOR OF PHOEBE LEGERE.

Original watercolor, "Songs of the Blue Angel," unused poster design for Legere's cabaret act, 1991, drybrush and watercolor, 315 x 185 mm, signed and dated in white paint lower left: "Hilary Knight '91," framed.

Modern underground chanteuse Legere has often channeled decadent Lola Lola of the famous early German talkie The Blue Angel in her shows. "Strapping on an accordion to stroll through the audience singing ''Lili Marlene,'" noted the New York Times in 1986, "Miss Legere, whose blond hair falls below her waist, suggests an insouciant 80s Marlene Dietrich." Mr. Knight's energetic poster design suggests Toulouse-Lautrec slumming in Berlin during the Weimar Republic.

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