J. Walter Collinge

J. Walter Collinge. Summer dance 1920

J. Walter Collinge

J. Walter Collinge. East dance 1920

J. Walter Collinge

J. Walter Collinge. June 1920

J. Walter Collinge

J. Walter Collinge. Francesca 1920

J. Walter Collinge

J. Walter Collinge. Dancer  in greek costume 1920

J. Walter Collinge

J. Walter Collinge. The dancer Ruth St Denis in greek costume 1920

Wayne Albee

Wayne Albee. Nude study of the dancer Doris Humphrey 1924

Edwin Bower Hesser

Edwin Bower Hesser. The dancer Doris Humphrey 1921

Doris Humphrey

The dancer Doris Humphrey 1922

Wayne Albee

Wayne Albee. Untitled 1930

Wayne Albee

Wayne Albee. The dancer Doris Humphrey in the Hoop dance 1924

Wayne Albee

Wayne Albee. Dancers with balls 1924

Wayne Albee

Wayne Albee. Dancer 1920s

Emil Otto Hoppé

Emil Otto Hoppé. The dancer Lubov Tchernicheva as Cleopatra 1918

Emil Otto Hoppé

Emil Otto Hoppé. The dancer Lubov Tchernicheva as Cleopatra 1918

Emil Otto Hoppé

Emil Otto Hoppé. The dancer Lubov Tchernicheva as Cleopatra 1918

Lubov Tchernicheva

The dancer Lubov Tchernicheva 1918

Honoré de Balzac

« Love has its own instinct,
finding the way to the heart,
as the feeblest insect finds
the way to its flower. » (Honoré de Balzac)


Desiree Lubovska

The dancer Desiree Lubovska 1915

Desiree Lubovska

The dancer Desiree Lubovska 1915

Federico Garcia Lorca

« I will go on my way until the universe fits in my heart. » (Federico García Lorca)

Desiree Lubovska

The dancer Desiree Lubovska as Cleopatra 1915

Marcia Mishkin Stein

Marcia Mishkin Stein. The dancer Desiree Lubovska 1918

Marcia Mishkin Stein

Marcia Mishkin Stein. The dancer Desiree Lubovska 1918

Marcia Mishkin Stein

Marcia Mishkin Stein. The dancer Desiree Lubovska 1918

Desiree Lubovska

The dancer Desiree Lubovska 1919

Jan de Meyere

Jan de Meyere. The dancer Rosa Chladek 1938

Grete Kolliner

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Rosa Chladek 1931

Anna Riwkin

Anna Riwkin. The dancer Rosa Chladek in Jeanne d’arc 1938

Rosa Chladek

Rosa Chladek’s school dance 1930s

Rosa Chladek

The dancer Rosa Chladek 1932

Rosa Chladek

The dancer Rosa Chladek 1932

Rosa Chladek

The dancer Rosa Chladek 1932

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani. Seated nude woman 1916

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani. Hanka Zborowska 1918

Amedeo Modigliani

“Happiness is an angel with a serious face.” (Amedeo Modigliani)

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani. Adrienne 1917

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. The dancer Nina Hardt 1922

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. Nude study 1922

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. Nude study 1921

Atelier Karl Schenker. Nude study 1921

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. Reclining nude 1920

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. The dancer Annemarie Ehmann 1922

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. Hands of a woman 1934

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. Back view of a woman 1928

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. The dancer and actress Lisa Kresse 1919

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. The dancer and actress Lisa Kresse 1919

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. Lilli Schenker 1932

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. The actress Maria Welfers 1919

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. The actress Alexa von Porembski 1926

Atelier Karl Schenker

Atelier Karl Schenker. The dancer Anna Wikstrom 1923

Marilyn Monroe

The actress Marilyn Monroe, her last sitting in 1962

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement in geometrical figures 1924

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement in geometrical figures 1924

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement in geometrical figures 1924

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement in geometrical figures 1924

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Dance Study 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Svishchov

Nikolay Ivanovich Svishchov . Study of movement 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Jump 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Jump 1925

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky

Nikolay Ivanovich Vlasievsky. Study of movement, symmetry 1925

Anonymous photographer

Anonymous photographer. Dancer 1920

Unidentified photographer

Unidentified photographer. Miss Zulaik in Butterfly dance 1925

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun et Marcel Moore. Aveux non avenues, planche VI. Photomontage 1919-1929

Hermann Schieberth

Hermann Schieberth. Unknown dancer 1930

Hermann Schieberth

Hermann Schieberth. Nude study 1920s

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt. Seated nude woman 1907

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun. Untitled 1939

Kati Horna

Kati Horna. Portrait 1937

Miroslav Tichy

Miroslav Tichy. Untitled

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois. Sainte Sébastienne 1992

« I will never be the courtisan of a kingdom of which you are only the slave. » (DantéBéa)

Abraham Walkowitz

Abraham Walkowitz. Isadora Duncan 1910s

Abraham Walkowitz. Isadora Duncan 1910s

Abraham Walkowitz

Abraham Walkowitz. Isadora Duncan 1910s

Abraham Walkowitz. Isadora Duncan 1910s

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Bouquet of peonies and cat 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Adeline 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Nu féminin drapé 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Portrait of a woman 1910s. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Adeline 1921. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Unknown woman 1910s. Autochrome

Octavio Paz

« The night erases nights on your face, spreads ointments on your dry eyelids, the thought burns on your forehead, and beyond thought, memory.
Among the shadows that drown you dawns on another face.
And I feel that by my side you are not the sleeper, but the little girl you were and was just waiting for me to sleep to come back and meet me. » (Octavio Paz)

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Albert Méricant

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

From the book Le nu photographique. Editions Albert Méricant 1908

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt. Lovers 1903

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Denishawn dancers 1927

Charles Baudelaire

« We will have beds full of light smells,
Dives as deep as tombs,
And strange flowers on shelves,
Hatched for us under more beautiful skies.

Using their last heat as they wish,
Our two hearts will be two vast torches,
Who will reflect their double lights
In our two minds, these twin mirrors.

An evening made of pink and mystical blue,
We will exchange a single lightning bolt,
Like a long sob, full of goodbyes;

And later an Angel half-opening the doors
Will come to revive, faithful and joyful,
The tarnished mirrors and dead flames. »(Charles Baudelaire)

Edwin Bower Hesser

Edwin Bower Hesser. The actress Dolores del Rio 1929

Edwin Bower Hesser

Edwin Bower Hesser. The actress Katharine Irving 1929

Edwin Bower Hesser

Edwin Bower Hesser. The actress Jean Harlow 1929

Edwin Bower Hesser

Edwin Bower Hesser. Veiled nude 1930

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Nu féminin 1910. Autochrome

Émile Bayard

Emile Bayard. From the book The aesthetic nude 1904

Émile Bayard

Emile Bayard From the book The aesthetic nude 1904

Emile Bayard From the book The aesthetic nude 1904

Émile Bayard

Emile Bayard From the book The aesthetic nude 1904