Venices

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Comtesse Greffulhe

Marcel Proust in Venice

Théophile Gautier photographed by Paul Nadar

Gabriele D’Annunzio at the regatta on Lake Garda, 1930

Henri de Régnier

Jean Cocteau, 1934

The Groupe des Six (from left to right): François Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey, Jean Cocteau, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger and a drawing of Georges Auric by Cocteau, 1931

Serge Lifar at the exhibition celebrating twenty years of the Ballets Russes at the Pavillon de Marsan, 1939

Serge Diaghilev’s tomb on the island of San Michele, Venice

Max Jacob

The Grand Canal, Trieste

Self-portrait of Cecil Beaton at the Marco Polo Ball, Venice 1951