artists

  Now, Sheherazade, that you’ve enraptured the attentive,  moody sultan’s night for the thousandth-and-one time ………… GEORGE BARBIER 1914  

  I’m handsome. My fit body in the large golden garment inlays itself in the black lacquer panel. GEORGE BARBIER 1914

  Since it was the most beautiful weather in the world and the Sun was shining in the Spring sky …… GEORGE BARBIER 1914  

  The ceremonial scarf is part of the habit of this Hopi priest with his flute, photographed in Oraibi in 1901. Woven by men, it presents the typical embroidery pattern of the loincloths or thongs. It is believed that the geometric designs represent the mask of one of the Kacina …

  He designed jewelry and decorative glass, and created numerous sceneries and costumes for music halls, the theater and cinema. In fact, he designed the costumes of Rodolfo Valentino in the film “Monsieur Beaucaire” of 1924.  He illustrated advertisement catalogues and numerous literary texts, specifically Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, Pierre …