The Zweifel Circus Collection
Sat, Sep 24, 2022 12:00PM EDT
Lot 389
Portrait of Count Nicholas, Circus Ringmaster. Oil on board...
Estimate: $200 - $400
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Portrait of Count Nicholas, Circus Ringmaster. Oil on board, framed with brass plaque affixed. Unsigned, with notation to verso ?Count Nicholas?Painted in Sarasota 1965?. Angelo Nicholas (1910-2001) joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey in 1927 as an usher at the age of 16. Over a long and successful career he became the ringmaster of R.B.B.B. in the mid-1950s, and later Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros., and was an Ambassador for James E. Strates Shows. He was inducted into the Circus Ring of Fame in 2016 (www.circusringoffame.org/nicholas-count). 19 ? x 15 ?? (sight).
