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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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Ida Kar, by Ida Kar - NPG x134076

Ida Kar

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1933
NPG x134076

Edmond Belali; Ida Kar, by Ida Kar - NPG x134046

Edmond Belali; Ida Kar

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1930s
NPG x134046

Ida Kar, by Ida Kar - NPG x134077

Ida Kar

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1930s
NPG x134077

Melkon Karamian, by Ida Kar - NPG x134048

Melkon Karamian

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
NPG x134048

Still Life, Egypt, by Ida Kar - NPG x134145

Still Life, Egypt

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
NPG x134145

Anahit Karamian, by Ida Kar - NPG x134160

Anahit Karamian

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
NPG x134160

Roland Penrose, By Ida Kar - NPG x137330

Roland Penrose

By Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1940s
NPG x137330

Roland Penrose, By Ida Kar - NPG x137331

Roland Penrose

By Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1940s
NPG x137331

Roland Penrose, By Ida Kar - NPG x137332

Roland Penrose

By Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1940s
NPG x137332

Abstract, Egypt, by Ida Kar - NPG x199434

Abstract, Egypt

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
NPG x199434

Unknown man, by Ida Kar - NPG x201275

Unknown man

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1940s
NPG x201275

Unknown man, by Ida Kar - NPG x201276

Unknown man

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1940s
NPG x201276

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