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RUSSIAN BALLET DANCER PORTRAIT PHOTO BY Kenn Duncan

Sold for $80 at Antique Arena Inc on Aug 5, 2023.

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Kenneth Duncan, American, 1928 to 1986, a collection of limited edition black and white photographs depicting portraits of Russian male ballet dancers, Vyacheslav Gordeev and Vladimir Vasiliev, 1976. Inscribed and dated 7/75, July of 1977, on the backside. An original stamp of Kenn Duncan Ltd, on the backside. Provenance: photographs from the archive of After Dark and Dance Magazine editor William Como. After Dark was an essential source on dance, theater, performance art, ballet, and cinema of the late 60 and 1970s and a foundational piece of gay cultural history that influenced a generation of artists. Kenn Duncan began his career as a skater and then a dancer. Principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. Broadway shows: Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies. Duncans complete archive is in the collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Vintage and Modern American and Russian Ballet Dancer Portraits, Celebrities, Graphic Art Prints, and Collectibles.

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