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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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Tom Maschler, by Ida Kar - NPG x126038

Tom Maschler

by Ida Kar
5 x 4 inch film negative, mid 1950s
NPG x126038

Cecil Day-Lewis, by Ida Kar - NPG x127276

Cecil Day-Lewis

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, mid 1950s
NPG x127276

Man Ray, by Ida Kar - NPG x131161

Man Ray

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 30 March 1954
NPG x131161

Henry Moore, by Ida Kar - NPG x13791

Henry Moore

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
NPG x13791

Man Ray, by Ida Kar - NPG x132223

Man Ray

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 30 March 1954
NPG x132223

Reg Butler, by Ida Kar - NPG x31621

Reg Butler

by Ida Kar
quarter-plate film negative, 1954
NPG x31621

Patrick Heron, by Ida Kar - NPG x31624

Patrick Heron

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x31624

Camille Bombois, by Ida Kar - NPG x31617

Camille Bombois

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x31617

Alberto Giacometti, by Ida Kar - NPG x31632

Alberto Giacometti

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x31632

Man Ray, by Ida Kar - NPG x31643

Man Ray

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 30 March 1954
NPG x31643

'Reclining figure by Henry Moore', by Ida Kar - NPG x132612

'Reclining figure by Henry Moore'

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
NPG x132612

Henry Moore, by Ida Kar - NPG x88723

Henry Moore

by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
NPG x88723

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