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Préludes de Claude Debussy

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Brouillards, 1948, tirage au charbon. Illustration pour les Préludes de Claude Debussy. | Mists, 1948, charcoal print. Illustration for the Préludes by Claude Debussy. | src Musée Français de la Photographie
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Illustration pour les Préludes de Claude Debussy. La page est composée de deux parties : à gauche se trouvent dessinées les notes introductives et le titre du Prélude illustré; à droite, le tirage au charbon illustratif est glissé dans la chemise. Cet ensemble constitue la douzième des 23 illustrations du port-folio intitulé Illustrations pour les Préludes de Claude Debussy. L’intérieur de la page double, à gauche, portée calligraphiée avec la mention “Modéré”; au recto, à l’intérieur de la page double, à gauche, titre calligraphié : “Brouillards”. | Illustration for the Préludes by Claude Debussy. Inside the double page, on the left, handwritten with the words “Moderate”; on the front, inside the double page, on the left, calligraphic title: “Mists”. | src musee français de la photographie

Nude study for Pierre Louÿs

Laure Albin Guillot :: ‘Paroles dans la nuit’. Études de nu, ca. 1930-1940. Étude pour Douze chansons de Bilitis de Pierre Louÿs. | ‘Words in the night’. Nude Study, ca. 1930-1940. Study for Twelve Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs. | src interencheres

Beauty (nude portrait), 1932

Lang Jingshan :: Beauty, aka Nude portrait, 1932. | src cphoto

Theda Bara, 1920s

Hoover Art Co. :: Portrait of actress Theda Bara, 1920s. | src Flickr
Hoover Art Co. :: Portrait of actress Theda Bara, 1920s. | src Flickr
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 | src wikimedia commons
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 | src wikimedia commons
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 | src wikimedia commons
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 (cropped) | src wikimedia commons
Theda Bara, a Suggestion for Your Easter Chapeau, March 1926. International Newsreel (publisher) | src NPG
Theda Bara, a Suggestion for Your Easter Chapeau, March 1926. International Newsreel (publisher) | src NPG

Alla Nazimova by Hoover

Hoover Art Co. :: Alla Nazimova, published in Picture Play Magazine, March 1920

Caption reads : “Nazimova is seen as a waif of the streets in one picture and a foreign dancer in the next; obviously, neither custom or anything else can stale her infinite variety”.

Hoover Art Co. :: Portrait of Alla Nazimova, 1920s. | src Flickr