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Tamara Karsavina

by Leon Kamir-Kaufman, after Karl Fischer
pastel, 1913, based on a work of 1910
36 1/4 in. x 23 5/8 in. (921 mm x 600 mm)
Purchased, 1980
Primary Collection
NPG 5347

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  • Karl Fischer (born 1859), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • Leon Kamir-Kaufman (1872-1933), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

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Current affairs

The Suffragette, Emily Davison dies after stepping out in front of the King's horse as a protest at the Epsom Derby. In the same year the Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act allowing them to release and re-arrest Suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison. Davison, herself, had been on hunger strike and was force-fed while detained at Holloway Prison.

Art and science

Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring comes to London following its premier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Audiences were shocked by Stravinsky's rhythmic and dissonant musical score and by the violent jerky dancing of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which were intended to represent pagan ritual.

International

Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company, rapidly increasing the rate at which the famous Model T could be manufactured, leading to massive growth in the motorcar industry and demonstrating to other industries the efficiency of mass production.

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Andrew Foster

27 May 2020, 10:51

Leon Kamir copied this portrait directly from a photograph of Karsavina taken by Karl Fischer at the Mariinsky theatre in 1910.