Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Playing backgammon in the courtyard near their homes in Yerevan’ NPG x135020

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Photographer, born in Tambov, near Moscow. Kar was influenced by the Paris avant-garde whilst studying there in 1928 and subsequently established her photographic practice ‘Idabel’ in Cairo with her first husband, Edmond Belali, in 1933. She moved to London in 1945 with her second husband, the artist and critic Victor Musgrave. With the opening of Musgrave’s Gallery One in D’Arblay Street, Soho, Kar photographed and exhibited Forty Artists from Paris and London (1954), however the height of her success was her well-received Whitechapel… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.