Category: 1920s

Dancer Anton Birkmayer, 1922

The dancer Anton Birkmayer. Published in La Danse, November 1922. Front cover | src CND ~ Médiathèque
The dancer Anton Birkmayer. Published in La Danse, November 1922 | src CND ~ Médiathèque

Study of nude, 1920s

Laure Albin-Guillot ~ Nude Study (bending backwards in a dance pose), ca. 1930 | src Roger Viollet, also on Getty Images

La danseuse Moa Mandu, 1922

«La danseuse bosnienne Moa Mandu vient de donner un concert de danses à la Comédie des Champs-Elysées. La qualité savamment barbare de sa danse et l’originalité de ses costumes drapés avec art ont beaucoup plû.» | «The Bosnian dancer Moa Mandu has just given a dance concert at the Comédie des Champs-Elysées. The skilfully barbaric quality of her dance and the originality of her artfully draped costumes were very popular.» Published in La Danse, November 1922. | src CND ~ Médiathèque
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Ervína Kupferová, 1922

František Drtikol :: The dancer Ervína Kupferová in The Fire Drum, 1922. “The Fire Drum” has an extravagant subtitle “African drama full of fire, color, rumble, fragrance.” Its author was the no less extravagant Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. For its time it was an ultra modern production, the sets were designed by Italian artist Enrico Prampolini. Although the photographer is not identified, its author was most likely František Drtikol (Kupferová’s husband). | src Prague National Theatre

La Cantate du Narcisse, 1920s

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Nude study. Illustration for “La Cantate du Narcisse” by Paul Valéry, France, ca. 1920. | src getty images