boris lipnitzki

paul poiret et joséphine baker lors de la fête de sainte-catherine, chez le couturier français. paris, 25 novembre 1925 

serge lifar in icare, 1935

deauville, 1937

capeline de paille valois

coco chanel, 1936

aerodynamic locomotive at the lyons station, paris, 1937

(how beautiful is that train?)

erté, paris, 1924

concours d’élégance avec une jeune femme au volant d’une chrysler, paris, 1938

james joyce 1934

madame grès designing a dress for macy's, 1936

tsuguharu foujita, paris, ca. 1925

jeune femme sortant d'une voiture, janvier 1934

danielle darrieux, 1937

jean-paul sartre, 1946

les mannequins de cez patou, paris, 1927

on the banks of the seine, paris, 1937

all photographs © boris lipnitzki

georges lepape

vogue, april, 1928.

vanity fair, december, 1919.

paul poiret, 1924.

vogue, november, 1931.

les choses de poiret, 1911.

vogue paris, august, 1926.

vogue, july, 1931.

vogue, september, 1926.

l'oiseau bleu, 1923.

vogue, february, 1929.

feuillets d'art, le miroir rouge, 1919.

vogue, october, 1924.

house & garden, november, 1934.

vogue, january, 1923.

vogue, september, 1927.

georges lepape was born on the rue montaigne may 26, 1887. by the age of 18 he had enrolled in the ecole des beaux-arts. in 1910 he began his collaborations with paul poiret & over the next 10 years, poiret would become paris's leading haute couture designer & lepape would be recognized as one of the world's most brilliant fashion illustrators.
by 1920, lepape had worked with the houses of worth, lanvin, paquin, doucet , magazines harper's bazaar & vogue, commissions for fur, perfume & other luxury good producers, illustrations for ballets russes, costume & set designs for marcel l'herbier & a series of posters for galeries lafayette. in 1926 condé nast invited lepape to new york, further cementing a long relationship with vogue.
georges lepape remained a prolific & sought-after working artist right up to the time of his death at the age of 84, on february 15, 1971.

1913

actress julia james photographed by alexander bassano.

nude descending a staircase no. 2 by marcel duchamp

female mongolian prisoner, imprisoned for adultry (portable imprisonment) photographed by stephane passet.

district of columbia traffic. a very new-looking ca. 1913 haynes roadster in washington crossing pennsylvania avenue at 14th street n.w.

cover of the official program for the march 1913 woman suffrage march in washington d.c.

guitar, gas, jet and bottle by pablo picasso. 

telegraph messenger boy, waco, texas. photograph by lewis hine.

sunday strollers on new york's fifth avenue.

gordon van tine catalog.

mae murray on chair. photographed by moffett.

japanesque autochrome. photograph by alfonse van besten.

victoria copying machine.

liebespaar by egon schiele.

dancer clotilde von derp. photograph by rudolf dührkoop & minya diez-dührkoop.

thomas edison with an electric car.

die jungrau (the virgin) by gustav klimt.

paul poiret fashions.

anna pavlova photographed by madame d'ora.

dadaists tristan tzara, georges janco, marcel janco, jules janco (three brothers), poldi chapier, and ion vinea, bucharest.

another year has passed & once again, i want to thank everyone for stopping by to visit.  i reached one million views yesterday (a really huge deal for me!). thank you. thank you. thank you!