Nickolas Muray Photograph of Doris Niles Ballet w/Original Art Deco Program 1928

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Nickolas Muray Photograph of Doris Niles Ballet w/ Original Art Deco Program 1928
Original photograph by Nikolas Muray (1892-1965) of The Doris Niles Ballet Company, circa 1928. Accompanied is a graphic Art Deco single-sheet (folded in three, to make six-pages) program for the company.
Nikolas Muray was an important theatrical photographer who had a studio in Greenwich Village, New York City
SIZE OF PHOTOGRAPH  -  8" x 10"
SIZE OF PROGRAM SHEET  -  10  3/4"  x  16  1/2" (opened)
CONDITION : Photograph and program are both in goods condition as seen in the photos. Photograph with stains to the reverse, but not on the front. Light silvering.
NOTES / REFERENCES :
NIKOLAS MURAY
Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl (1892-1965) was a Hungarian-born American photographer. In 1894 his family moved to Budapest where he attended a graphic arts school studying lithography, photoengraving, and photography.
In 1913, with the threat of war in Europe, Muray sailed to New York City, and found work as a color printer in Brooklyn. By 1920, Muray had opened a portrait studio at his home in Greenwich Village. In 1921 he received a commission from Harper's Bazaar to do a portrait of the Broadway actress Florence Reed and soon after was having his photographs published each month in Harper's Bazaar. Muray quickly became recognized as an important portrait photographer, and his subjects included most of the celebrities of New York City. In 1926, Vanity Fair sent Muray to London, Paris, and Berlin to photograph celebrities, and in 1929 hired him to photograph movie stars in Hollywood. He also did fashion and advertising work. Muray's images were published in many other publications, including Vogue, Ladies' Home Journal, and The New York Times. Between 1920 and 1940, Muray made over 10,000 portraits.
Muray had a decade-long on-and-off liaison with artist Frida Kahlo. His 1938 portrait of her, made while Kahlo sojourned in New York, attending her exhibit at the Julien Levy Gallery, became the best known and loved portrait made by Muray. During World War II, he taught photography at New York University.
DORIS NILES
Doris Niles (1905-1998) was an American dancer. Born in Redlands, California. Her younger sister Cornelia Niles also pursued a dance career, and taught dance at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. When she was 17 years old, Niles was hired as a dancer at the Capitol Theatre in New York City. She soon specialized in "exotic" dances meant to evoke Asian cultures, in spectacles choreographed by Alexander Oumansky. She and her sister danced recitals together in 1926-1927, including two at Carnegie Hall.
At 22, she went to Spain, to study Spanish dance. She soon performed for King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia. Though her company toured in the United States in 1928-1929, she stayed mainly in Europe, performing and learning until 1940, when the hazards of World War II sent her home to the United States. She continued working as a dancer and teaching dance, mainly in Los Angeles, until her retirement after 1961. In 1963 she choreographed a production of Turandot for the Redlands Bowl. She was admired for her beauty and extravagant costumes as well as for her dance steps.
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