Portraits of People


Jawaharlal Nehru – 1955, with lion cubs; feeding panda



John Huston – India, 1955, riding an elephant




Henri Matisse – Cimiez, Nice, France, ca. 1949, holding a rooster




Maharaja of Mysore (invitation to India) – 1954, plus photos of many public, private & family scenes




Pierre Durand-Ruel – Kenya, 1952, Ylla's companion; the prestigious Durand-Ruel gallery, Paris/New York, is widely credited with having created the careers of the Impressionists and for establishing their popularity in the United States




Jacques Prévert – Italy, summer 1948; text of Le Petit Lion, 1947 and Les Bêtes, 1950; Alexandre Trauner standing in background




Varian Fry with André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba Breton and Max Ernst – Centre Américain de Secours (American Relief Center), Marseille, April 1941




Wilfredo Lam – Cuba, 1947, with "Bélial, Empereur des Mouches" ("Belial, Lord of the Flies"), completed in 1948




Maharaja of Bharatpur (where Ylla died) – 1955

Dennis Conan Doyle (son of Arthur) – India, 1954, with wife Nina Mdivani

Mura Dehn, dancer – New York

Ernö Goldfinger, architect – Paris, 1933, sitting with heliometer

Benjamin Péret – Marseille, March 1941

 

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