Portraits

Madame Yevonde
by Madame Yevonde
colour dye transfer print, 1940
14 7/8 in. x 12 in. (378 mm x 305 mm)
Purchased, 1995

This self-portrait combines many aspects of Yevonde’s picture making. It was also one of her last pictures made using the Vivex colour process. At the left is a still life composition made up of her photographic chemicals and camera lens. Yevonde sits within a gold old master frame which she often used in her photographs as a framing device. At the top of the picture is a version of one of her ‘Goddesses series’ portraits, namely The Duchess of Wellington as Hecate. In Greek mythology Hecate was a Goddess of the Underworld, Earth and Moon with powers in sorcery and black magic.

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Paloma Picasso (1990). Model: Paloma Picasso, cover of Jardin des Modes magazine

En Plein Coeur (Right Through the Heart) (2016). Model: TOP (Choi Seung-Hyun)

Portrait de Lady Swinton (1996). Model: Tilda Swinton

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