Princess Krishna

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Princess Krishna

by Yevonde
Vivex colour print, 1937
14 3/4 in. x 11 3/4 in. (374 mm x 297 mm)
Given by Yevonde, 1971
Photographs Collection
NPG x34363

On display at The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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This photograph by Yevonde of 'Princess Krishna' shows the young Indian Princess in her finery captured by Yevonde's colour vivex process. Yevonde photographed a number of other non-British subjects who visited her London studio such as the American singer Paul Robeson.

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  • Clare Freestone, Yevonde: Life and Colour, 2023 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 22 June to 15 October 2023), p. 115

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George VI becomes king. The younger brother of Edward VIII was crowned on the 12th May and the coronation was broadcast to Britain and the Empire on the radio. Edward becomes the Duke of Windsor, although the rank of 'Royal Highness' is not extended to Wallis Simpson.
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister following Baldwin's retirement.

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Roland Penrose organises a tour of Picasso's painting Guernica to the UK. The painting, which shows the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, went on display at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in East London

International

Commercial airship travel is brought to an end with the 'Hindenberg Disaster'. The German airship exploded while landing in New Jersey. The radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison's reaction has become legendary: 'Oh, the humanity!'
Japan invades China, killing about 25,000. Japanese Troops committed numerous atrocities against soldiers and civilians in what became known as the 'Rape of Nanking'.

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