Professor Alba with a skeleton, representing his ability to "gamble with death". Colour lithograph, 195-.

Date:
[between 1950 and 1959?]
Reference:
667615i
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Description

Professor Alba in evening dress, arm-in-arm with a skeleton in the traditional role of the grim reaper. Apparently Alba was a hypnotist and mind-reader in Spanish circuses of the 1940s and 1950s. The nature of his "gamble with death" may be revealed in the book by Rafael Brines Lorente, Profesor Alba, el poder de la mente, Valencia: Carena, 2001 (ISBN 84-87398-48-0)

Publication/Creation

[Spain] : [publisher not identified], [between 1950 and 1959?] (Valencia (S. Lluch, 29 : Graficas Valencia.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 70.2 x 33 cm

Lettering

Profesor Alba, el hombre que juega con la muerte

Reference

Wellcome Collection 667615i

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