Dora Kallmus (Madame d’Ora Studio) :: Portrait photograph of painter Tamara Łempicka or Tamara de Lempicka, Paris, 1929. Born Maria Górska in Warsaw on 16 May 1898. / src: wikimedia
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Tag: veil
Pierre-Louis Pierson :: “L’assassinat / The Killing, or Judith” (between 1861 – 1867) –
Portrait of Comtesse de Castiglone,
Virginia de Castiglione, aka La Castiglione / source: plume-dhistoire
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Peter Martin :: unknown title, published in magazine Figure issue # 1, 1951/ original source from scanned magazine in hi-res: puppies and flowers
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Mary Binney Montgomery in Oramunde, experimental film directed by Emlen Etting in 1933 / full short film on YouTube / source:
A study on the theme of ‘Pelléas et Méllissande’. A female figure, her face hidden by a long veil, dances, twirls, and runs on the shore. She leaps on rocks along the edge of the sea, her veil wafting behind her.
Putnam and Valentine :: Ruth St. Denis in The Lotus Pond, 1915 / source: NYPL
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Geiko Yachiyo with a Heian Period Hat, 1910′s
Yachiyo dressed for the Ashibe odori (Ashibe public dance), holding a travelling hat from the Heian Period.
Yachiyo (1887-1924) was a famous geiko (geisha) from Osaka, known for her elegance and her lovely personality. People were said to weep with joy at the sight of her dancing. She became a maiko (apprentice geisha) at the age of thirteen and left the profession to marry the artist Suga Tatehiko at the age of twenty-nine. / src: Blue Ruin
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