RZEWUSKI ALEX-CESLAS (1893-1983)

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RZEWUSKI ALEX-CESLAS (1893-1983)
Portrait of Madame Mabelle Gilman Corey (1874-1960). Drypoint enhanced with color and white chalk on old japanese paper, signed lower left in pencil by the artist. Plate extracted from the album n° 3 on an edition numbered 10 copies, published in Paris in 1925. Good condition. H.: 28 cm - W.: 36 cm. History: Mabelle Giman was an American actress. In 1905 she was one of the biggest stars of the Broadway musical. Two years later she married William Ellis Corey (1866-1934). In 1923, the couple divorced and Mabelle became successively Mrs. Robert Scott, then Mrs. Hernando Rocha. She was nicknamed by the American press the "Queen of Diamonds", the "most beautiful blonde on Broadway" or the "$25,000-a-day fiancée", this American woman who only had millionaire husbands divided her time between the Côte d'Azur and the United States. At the end of her life, she stripped herself of her fortune and entered a convent in New York where she ended her life.
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