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Ady Fidelin

(1915-2004), Model

Casimir Joseph Adrienne ('Ady') Fidelin

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Picnic (Nusch Eluard, Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, Ady Fidelin), by Lee Miller - NPG x137400

Picnic (Nusch Eluard, Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, Ady Fidelin)

by Lee Miller
gelatin silver print, 1937 (2012)
NPG x137400

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Wendy Grossman

27 April 2020, 05:09

Fidelin was born in 1915 in Pointe-à-Pitre into one of Guadeloupe’s oldest Creole families, immigrating to France in the wake of the catastrophic 1928 cyclone that devastated the Caribbean, killing thousands. The death of her mother during this traumatic event and the passing of her father a few years later precipitated her migration to Paris to join family members who had made the passage before her. She arrived in France in one of the successive waves of émigres from the island, lured by the hope of a better life in the storm’s aftermath. Fidelin’s relationship with Man Ray, first registered in entries in his date book in December of 1935, subsequently led to her introduction to Picasso and the circle of creatives who would become her virtual family for the next five years. She appears in close to 400 photographs by Man Ray, as well as several paintings, drawings, prints and a short film by the American artist. She was also photographed by Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) and was the subject of a recently identified painting by Picasso.