Jul 25, 2019
Isadora Duncan dancing La Marseillaise, 1917 Arnold Genthe (American, born Germany; 1869–1942) Photographic print mounted on paper The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Inscribed on mount by Isadora Duncan to her foster daughter, Irma Duncan: “Liberté Liberté Cherie – Isadora"
Irma Duncan “was one of six German children who gained fame by touring as the ‘Isadorables,’ or the Duncan Dancers, shortly before and after World War I.” (New York Times, September 22, 1977)
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