Winter Magic Auction: featuring the Collection of Max Maven
Sun, Dec 14, 2025 12:00PM EST
Live Auction
Lot 358
IONIA (Clementine De Vere, 1883 - 1973). Ionia / L’Enchantr...
Estimate: $6,000 - $12,000
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IONIA (Clementine De Vere, 1883 - 1973). Ionia / L?Enchantresse. Birmingham: Moody Brothers, ca. 1910. Magnificent full-length portrait poster of this illusionist standing on a marble slab with a smoldering volcano in the background, her name set in a mosaic-style above her outstretched hand. 19 ? x 30?. Linen backed. Old central fold, one corner clipped; A-.Ionia was the daughter of Charles De Vere, the well-known English magician and magic trick manufacturer, who operated a shop and factory in Paris. Her mother, Julia Ferret De Vere, performed as Okita, a Chinese magicienne. Ionia?s stage career lasted just three years. Even so, she presented a spectacular routine of stage-filling illusions that was heavily advertised with what many collectors now consider some of the most artistic posters of magic?s ?golden age.?
