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ILSE BING (1899–1998)
Images from Moulin Rouge, 1931
twelve gelatin silver prints
eight signed and dated in black or white ink (recto); six signed and dated, two also titled, and each with Estate numbers, all in pencil (verso)
each image: approximately 6 1/2 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.8 cm.) or inverse
each sheet: approximately 7 x 9 1/2 in. (17.8 x 24.1 cm.) or inverse

Provenance
Bequest of the artist, 1998.
Literature
[Dancer spinning in polka dot dress]:
Exhibition catalogue, Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985, pl. 8, p. 43.
Nancy C. Barrett, Ilse Bing, Paris 1931-1952, Paris-Musées, Paris, 1987, pl. 47 (as Danseuse de cancan au Moulin Rouge, 1931).
Larisa Dryansky, Ilse Bing: Photographs Through the Looking Glass, Abrams, New York, 2006, p. 155 (as Cancan Dancer, Moulin-Rouge, Paris, 1933).
Quentin Bajac et al (eds.), Photography at MoMA: 1920-1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016, pl. 133, p. 147.

[Dancer doing splits in polka dot dress]:
Larisa Dryansky, Ilse Bing: Photographs Through the Looking Glass, Abrams, New York, 2006, p. 141 (as Cancan Dancers, Moulin-Rouge, Paris, 1931)

[Man with arm around woman, from behind]:
Nancy C. Barrett, Ilse Bing, Paris 1931-1952, Paris-Musées, Paris, 1987, pl. 57 (as Couple attablé au Moulin Rouge, 1931)
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