Category: 1920s

Les Nus de Drtikol · VIII · 1929

František Drtikol (1883—1961) ~ Untitled; Plate VIII, from ‘Les Nus de Drtikol’, 1929. Photogravure | src Christie’s
František Drtikol (1883—1961) ~ Planche VIII, from ‘Les Nus de Drtikol’, 1929. Photogravure | src the art of the photogravure
František Drtikol (1883—1961) ~ Untitled [Les nus de Drtikol], 1929. Heliogravure | src Ostlicht 11th auction (2014)
Title page for Les nus de Drtikol (Librairie des Arts Decoratifs), Paris, 1929 | src Ostlicht 11th auction 2014

Les Nus de Drtikol, 1929

František Drtikol :: XXVI, from ‘Les Nus de Drtikol’, 1929. Photogravure.
František Drtikol :: XXVI, from ‘Les Nus de Drtikol’, 1929. Photogravure. | src the art of the photogravure

Les Nus de Drtikol III, 1929

František Drtikol (Czech, 1883-1961) :: III, from ‘Les Nus de Drtikol’, 1929. Photogravure. | src the art of photogravure
František Drtikol (Czech, 1883-1961) :: III, from ‘Les Nus de Drtikol’, 1929. Photogravure. | src the art of photogravure

Les Nus de Drtikol II, 1929

František Drtikol (Czech, 1883-1961) :: II, from ‘Les Nus de Drtikol’, 1929. Photogravure. | src the art of photogravure

Tanzer Harald Kreutzberg

Will Burgdorf :: Dancer Harald Kreutzberg, around 1930s. | src apfelauge
Maurice Goldberg :: Drei aus Harald Kreutzbergs Sträflingstanz. | Three movement studies from Harald Kreutzberg’s ‘Convict dance’. Published in UHU magazine, January 1929 issue

Interpretive Dance, 1922

Jane Reece :: Interpretive Dance, 1922. | src billyjane. From Federica Muzzarelli, “Il corpo e l’azione. Donne e fotofrafia tra otto e novecento” (Atlante, Bologne, 2007) [ trad.: Femmes photographes – Émancipation et performance (1850-1940), Ed. Hazan, 2009]

Jetta Goudal in Open All Night

French actress Jetta Goudal (1898-1985) plays the unhappy wife of Adolphe Menjou in the silent comedy 'Open All Night' (aka 'One Parisian Night), directed by Paul Bern for Paramount (1924). Jetta is wearing a particularly revealing dress which exposes her cleavage down to her navel. | src Getty Images
French actress Jetta Goudal (1898-1985) plays the unhappy wife of Adolphe Menjou in the silent comedy ‘Open All Night’ (aka ‘One Parisian Night), directed by Paul Bern for Paramount (1924). Jetta is wearing a particularly revealing dress which exposes her cleavage down to her navel. | src Getty Images