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Ida Kar

(1908-1974), Photographer

Sitter in 137 portraits
Artist associated with 1567 portraits
Photographer, born in Tambov, near Moscow. Kar was influenced by the Paris avant-garde whilst studying there in 1928 and subsequently established her photographic practice 'Idabel' in Cairo with her first husband, Edmond Belali, in 1933. She moved to London in 1945 with her second husband, the artist and critic Victor Musgrave. With the opening of Musgrave's Gallery One in D'Arblay Street, Soho, Kar photographed and exhibited Forty Artists from Paris and London (1954), however the height of her success was her well-received Whitechapel Gallery one-person show in 1960. Her most celebrated portraits document the bohemian social circle of artists and writers in which she moved.

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John Malcolm Couzins; Ida Kar, by Unknown photographer - NPG x134467

John Malcolm Couzins; Ida Kar

by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134467

Ida Kar, by Unknown photographer - NPG x134466

Ida Kar

by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134466

Ida Kar, by Ida Kar - NPG x134470

Ida Kar

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134470

Ida Kar, by Unknown photographer - NPG x134517

Ida Kar

by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134517

Ida Kar; Martin Couzins, by P. Knina - NPG x134108

Ida Kar; Martin Couzins

by P. Knina
vintage bromide print, 1969
NPG x134108

Ida Kar, by John Malcolm Couzins - NPG x135244

Ida Kar

by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, circa 1969
NPG x135244

Ida Kar, by John Malcolm Couzins - NPG x135245

Ida Kar

by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, circa 1969
NPG x135245

Ida Kar, by John Malcolm Couzins - NPG x135246

Ida Kar

by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, circa 1969
NPG x135246

Ida Kar, by John Malcolm Couzins - NPG x134103

Ida Kar

by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, 22 January 1972
NPG x134103

Ida Kar, by John Malcolm Couzins - NPG x134104

Ida Kar

by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, 22 January 1972
NPG x134104

Anthony Sobers; Ida Kar and girl, by Ida Kar - NPG x201288

Anthony Sobers; Ida Kar and girl

by Ida Kar
gelatin silver contact sheet, 22 August 1974
NPG x201288

Ida Kar, by Mark Gerson - NPG x125827

Ida Kar

by Mark Gerson
glossy bromide print, 22 August 1974
NPG x125827

Ida Kar, by Victor Musgrave - NPG D16383

Ida Kar

by Victor Musgrave
felt tipped pen on blue paper, circa 1965
NPG D16383

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Ida Kar

possibly by John Cox
2 1/4 inch square film negative, circa 1958
NPG x134579

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Ida Kar; Ivon Hitchens; Mary Cranford ('Mollie') Hitchens (née Coates)

possibly by John Cox
2 1/4 inch square film negative, circa 1958
NPG x134580

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Ida Kar

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x134212

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