FOLIES BERGERE - Michel GYARMATHY (1908-1996, Artistic Direc - Lot 348

FOLIES BERGERE - Michel GYARMATHY (1908-1996, Artistic Director of the Folies Bergère for more than 50 years, creator of the revue's sets and costumes) / Important set of approximately 50 original drawings: set and costume projects, portraits, in pencil, in ink, all media, some on the back of his letterhead or Folies letterhead, some with annotations (Michel Gyarmathy's works are rare: his entire collection was deposited by his family in Hungary, where he was originally from, to be turned into a museum) / Autograph manuscript of script (painting for the Revue); signed notes for the Revue "Ah quelle Folie"; various annotated typescripts about costumes; "Sun" article ("Paris's answer to land of Disney"), 1961 correspondence from Las Vegas by Frederic Apcar (American choreographer and producer), R.O. Cannon (General Manager of the Tropica Hotel) and Lou Walters (American producer) about exporting the Revue des Folies Bergère to Las Vegas; large plan (72 x 45 cm) of the Tropicana Hotel stage in Las Vegas.