Madame yevonde

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Mrs Charles Sweeny (Margaret, Duchess of Argyll) as Helen of Troy Currently showing at Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing is an exhibition of works from the innovative and renowned photographer, Madame Yevonde, and the modern photographer, Neeta Madahar. I must get myself there... The Hon. Mrs James Beck as Daphne Madame Yevonde was active as a photographer between 1914 and 1975, specialising in portraiture. At the beginning of the 1930s, she begun experimenting with colour which, at the time, was…

Woman with Yellow Gloves and Bird 1938 c-type print, a later reprint circa 1980 16 x 12 in. 40.6 x 30.5 cm.

Shell, Madame Yevonde, 1937 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Three Sisters Flew Home by Mary Fitt published 1936 [ A New Year’s Eve party: Claribel is the hostess, and three new guests, sisters, ...

Madame Yevonde's pioneering colour series Goddesses in which 1930s society ladies took on guises based on classical myth

Madame Yevonde's pioneering colour series Goddesses in which 1930s society ladies took on guises based on classical myth

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Madame Yevonde's pioneering colour series Goddesses in which 1930s society ladies took on guises based on classical myth

National Portrait Gallery on Instagram: “Jill Scott was a racing motorist, being one of the many women who took up the sport in the 1920s and 1930s. She was popular in racing…”