Codice albumGBB-F-007260

Image IDGBB-F-007260-0000

1917, ITALY: The russian woman sculptor CATHERINE BARJANSKY (1890-1965), born Ekaterina Lvovna Barjanskaja, married with celebrated russian cellist Aleksandr Michajlovic Barjanskij (1883-1961). Close friend of poet Gabriele d'Annunzio and french writer Colette Willy. Catherine was a sculptor, became celebrated in over the world for her wax dolls portraits of celebrated people like ballerina Ida Rubinstein, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Eleonora Duse, Francesca Bertini , Arthur Schnitzler, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Sinclair Lewis, composer Bruno Walter, Frederich Delius, Colette and Krishnamurti. Today very rare to find why more of his work was missing (one portrait of Marchesa Casati still today exist at Vittoriale museum of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Gardone Riviera, Italy)

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