Kio - Russian Circus Illusionist

33.75" x 22.25" - Some chipping at the top otherwise excellent condition - Offset

Igor Kio - Russian magician, who performed primarily in circuses.

Has 3 enormous letters spelling: K(red) N(red) O(purple) with smaller letters in white in the lower left corner spelling: "UNPK". In the O is green tinted lions head with the silhouette of a women dancer half white and half black.

Igor Kio sen., then his sons Igor jun. and Emil, used to have each a one-hour show filling half of the circus program. Each of them travelling the world with his own staff of magic technicians, magic dancers, magic animals, magic clowns, magic dwarves, band leader conducting a 40-pieces jazz orchestra and the most unimaginable paraphernalia that the sovietic technology could have assured during the cold war to a magic show. In Moscow they had shops and engineers to build continuously new shows and misteriously perplexing apparata.