"A pair of portraits of the iconic figure François 'Féral' Benga", toned silver prints, circa 1930. In Swann Galleries' LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale, estimate $2,500 to $3,500.

But he wasn’t a French soldier – he was a famous Senegalese dancer based in Paris at the time, Francois Benga. Now immortalized in James A. Porter’s 1935 painting, “Soldado Senegales ...