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* Troubridge (Una, Lady, 1887-1963). Bronze statuette of the ballerina Adeline Genee, [1907?], fu

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* Troubridge (Una, Lady, 1887-1963). Bronze statuette of the ballerina Adeline Genee, [1907?], fu
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* Troubridge (Una, Lady, 1887-1963). Bronze statuette of the ballerina Adeline Genee, [1907?], full-length figure of Genee in ballet tutu with arms akimbo, unsigned and undated, 20 cm tall on marble plinth. The sculpture is reproduced in Ivor Guest's eponyomous biography of Adeline Genee (1958), p. 69. See also Richard Ormrod's Una Troubridge, the Friend of Radclyffe Hall (NY, 1985), p. 29: Una also saw Adeline Genee in The Debutante and wrote to her. She kindly replied giving Una times for sketching her in preparation for a sculpture, which was duly executed and later exhibited. She wrote, on its completion [in a letter dated 3rd October 1907]: Dear Miss Taylor [Genee's maiden name], Ever so many thanks for that dear little statuette I am awfully glad to have.... Una Troubridge, translator and sculptor, later had Nijinsky sit for her, although she is best known as the long-term partner of JohnÓ Radclyffe Hall. (1)
* Troubridge (Una, Lady, 1887-1963). Bronze statuette of the ballerina Adeline Genee, [1907?], full-length figure of Genee in ballet tutu with arms akimbo, unsigned and undated, 20 cm tall on marble plinth. The sculpture is reproduced in Ivor Guest's eponyomous biography of Adeline Genee (1958), p. 69. See also Richard Ormrod's Una Troubridge, the Friend of Radclyffe Hall (NY, 1985), p. 29: Una also saw Adeline Genee in The Debutante and wrote to her. She kindly replied giving Una times for sketching her in preparation for a sculpture, which was duly executed and later exhibited. She wrote, on its completion [in a letter dated 3rd October 1907]: Dear Miss Taylor [Genee's maiden name], Ever so many thanks for that dear little statuette I am awfully glad to have.... Una Troubridge, translator and sculptor, later had Nijinsky sit for her, although she is best known as the long-term partner of JohnÓ Radclyffe Hall. (1)

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