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| Posing in the Parthenon, six images by Edward Steichen, 1921. |
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| Four images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1915-18. |
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| In Venice, circa 1903-05. Probably photographed by her brother, Raymond Duncan. |
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| In Athens, 1903. Four images by her brother, Raymond Duncan. |
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| In the theater of Dionysus, Athens. (Three images.) |
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| Dancing in honor of Rodin at a banquet in the Bois de Vélizy, 1903. (Rodin had just been made a Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur.) |
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| Photograph by Paul Berger, circa 1907-08. |
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| Photograph by Arnold Genthe, circa 1917. |
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| Two portraits by Edward Steichen, 1913. |
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| With Edward Gordon Craig, circa 1906. |
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| With Paris Singer. Two images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1914. |
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| With her children Deirdre and Patrick. Portrait by Otto Wegener, 1913. |
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| Five images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1915-18. |
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| (This, the same photograph as that above, is an example of the cropping and toning Genthe customarily used in his prints.) |
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| With husband Sergei Esenin, Berlin, 1922. |
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| With Esenin, 1922. |
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| With Esenin arriving in the United States, 1922. (Three images.) |
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| A portrait by Baron de Meyer, 1922. |
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| Esenin on the Lido in Venice, 1922. (Two images.) |
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| Photograph by Bertram Park, 1921. |
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| Three images by Arnold Genthe, circa 1915-18. |
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| Circa 1920s. |
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| Portrait by Arnold Genthe, circa 1914. (The photographer cropped this image from his portrait of Duncan with Paris Singer.) |























































A sylph like spirit of dance, so beautiful her moves. A flickering flame of human passions, so wild her life.
ReplyDeleteThe tragic loss of three little-ones, a horrid death with the last words "Je vais a l'amour/ I am off to love".
-Rj