Marguerite Agniel leaning back with her arms outstretched and her legs tucked behind her, in a photographic studio.

Date:: 1929

Reference:: 540249i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Marguerite Agniel.
  - Marguerite Agniel leaning back with her arms outstretched and her legs tucked behind her, in a photographic studio.540249i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaces September 2022: Marguerite Agniel posing with her arms outstretched wearing a revealing silver two-piece costume and matching turban, on a rug, in a photographic studio.

Description

Agniel is also seen, in the same costume, in 539793i-539795i

Publication/Creation

New York City ([48th Street and Broadway]) : De Mirjian Studios, 1929.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Lettering

The courtesy of credit is requested - Thank you. De Mirjian Studios Bears number: 28 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso and embossed into the print

Notes

Photograph attributed to J. de Mirjian

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

References note

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XXI (b), f.p.42, Imagine you are pulling yourself up by an invisible horizontal bar

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540249i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.