WORK FROM THE 1920S-1930S Josephine Baker Automaton (in working order - circular motifs in motion). Moulded and painted polychrome cardboard. Metal and pearl accessories. Velvet upholstered base. H. 53 cm Feathers missing. Public collection and related work : Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco - A similar model, said to have belonged to Josephine Baker, is conserved in the collections of this institution under inventory number 1988.2.1. Bibliography : The Blues Aesthetic: Black culture and Modernism - Catalogue of the traveling exhibition organized at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington (September 14 - December 9, 1989); California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles (January 12 - March 4, 1990); Duke University Museum of Art, Durham (March 23 - May 20, 1990); Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston (June 8 - July 31, 1990); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (September 16 - December 30), Washington Project for the Arts Publishing, Washington, 1989. Our work to be compared with the automaton referenced under number 8 in the catalog and reproduced on page 45.