PROGRAMME OF THE 8TH GALA OF THE UNION OF ARTISTS - 1930 KEES VAN DONGEN (L’ECUYERE ROSA - STENCIL AND COLOUR LITHOGRAPH) CIRQUE D’HIVER - 8TH GALA OF THE UNION DES ARTISTES FIRST MARCH 1930

Paperback. 36 x 26 cm. Illustrated cover, 52 pages including 15 text pages and 25 illustrations (most of the illustrations are laminated). Edition 1.500 copies. Illustrations by FORAIN, VERTÈS, SEM, KEES VAN DONGEN, CAPPIELLO, Raoul DUFY, Sacha GUITRY, VUILLARD, PASCIN and Marie LAURENCIN. Texts by Pierre de Fouquières, Tristan Bernard, Colette, Henri de Régnier, Dieudonné Coste, Sacha Guitry, André Maurois, Roland Dorgelès and Anna de Noailles The Gala de l’Union des Artistes, created in France in 1923 by the French comedian Max Dearly, is a charity circus show in which non-professional celebrities, stars of stage and screen, perform circus acts. Its aim is to raise funds to help artists in need, on the principle that those «in the light» help those «in the dark».