Lo Hesse as Ahnfrau

Lo Hesse in ‘Ahnfrau’, 1924

**Franz Xaver Setzer ::** German dancer Lo Hesse as ‘Ahnfrau’ (Ancestress) in a costume designed by Walter Schnackenberg, Vienna, 1924. (Photographie von Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel) | src Getty Images

Mother and Baby. Bernadine & Elsie Buck, in the wheat country of Davenport, Washington, 1924. / source: Shorpy

The Beaumont Ball of 1924

Marchesa Luisa Casati in a fountain dress made of wires and lights by couturier Paul Poiret, at the Beaumont Ball held by the Count Etienne de Beaumont in Paris, 1924.

The Beaumont Ball in Paris 1924 (an event with a guest list so selective that Gabrielle Coco Chanel was excluded for being too ‘trade’), was a homage to Pablo Picasso and the Cubists. The dress made entirely from wires and lights, it was too wide for the entrance to Beaumont’s ballroom: the artist Christian Bérard, who witnessed Marchesa Luisa Casati attempting to squeeze through the doorway, reported that she collapsed like a “smashed zeppelin”. (x)

De Beaumont’s fêtes reached an apex in 1924 with the ballet series Soirées de Paris, which took place at the Théâtre de la Cigale in Montmartre from May 17 to June 30, 1924. An homage to the review of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire, the series included the scandalous ballet Mercure, which featured music composed by Erik Satie, sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso, and choreography devised by Léonide Massine. (x)

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Courtney Crawford, ca. 1924

**William Herbert Mortensen** (1897 – 1965) :: Courtney Crawford with Masks, ca. 1924. | source monster brains
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**William H. Mortensen** (1897 – 1965) · Courtney Crawford with Masks, ca. 1924. | source lexiconmag
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Toboggan Mann von Lavinia Schulz

**Minya Diez-Dührkoop ::** Tanzmasken “Toboggan Frau” und “Toboggan Mann” von Lavinia Schulz. Costume designs by Lavinia Schultz and Walter Holdt for “Bibo”, 1924. | src MK&G · Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)

Adam et Eve; tableau vivant

**Man Ray ::** *Ciné-Sketch; Adam and Eve* (Marcel Duchamp and Bronia Perlmutter), 1924. Gelatin silver print, on carte postale, printed in the 1930s. | src Christie’s & Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philamuseum)

In 1924 Francis Picabia asked Bronia to participate in a production, Ciné Sketch, that he and René Clair were putting on after the Relache ballet on New Year’s Eve. Bronia agreed, and she and Marcel Duchamp appeared nude —Duchamp did have a strategically placed fig leaf— in a living tabloid of Lucas Cranach’s Adam and Eve, which Man Ray photographed.

Ciné Sketch (1924) was a theatrical diversion conceived by Francis Picabia and René Clair, in which Marcel Duchamp and the Jewish-Polish model Bronia Perlmutter mime the figures of Adam and Eve in a tableau vivant of the Temptation after a painting by Cranach. Ciné-Sketch was performed only once, at the conclusion of Relache (by Ballets Suédois) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on New Year’s Eve 1924.

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Pequena leiteira [The Little milkwoman]. Noia, A Coruña, 1924. / source: Decolonial

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