Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm text by J. Alberto Mariñas. The artist Fabius Lorenzi (1880-1969) specialised in fashionable illustrations of a sexually adventurous, Parisian demi-monde, including – depending on how you look at them – representations of women enjoying autonomous sexual relations with men, to which this image
Ray Batchelor writes: “The artwork for this postcard is signed by Luiz Usabal Y Hernandez. It is taken from the Wikipedia entry for “Queer Tango” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Tango (accessed 29 March 2016) which includes this quotation from J. Alberto Mariñas: "The origin of those images, like the origin of the enthronement of
Ray Batchelor writes: “Accrording to the text found at the source (with this mis-spelling of Valentino’s first name): Viola Dana and Shirley Mason appeared as Mr and Mrs Rodolph Valentino in the Actors’ Fund Benefit Show in Los Angeles and scored with the Argentine tango. The famous sisters proved great
Gonzalo Collazo writes: “There are many sources for this picture. ” What do you belive the copyright status of this image to be? Gonzalo Collazo believes: “The image is out of copyright.” The image url: https://juan314.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/tango-en-el-east-end-londres-tango-in-the-east-end-london-by-thurston-hopkins-1954/
Ray Batchelor writes: “The text underneath reads: – Regarde donc Freddy avec sa fiancée… Comme il la secoue ! – Oui, il pense à la corbeille de noces, et il fait déjà danse l’anse du panier Which Google translate renders as: – Then see Freddy with his fiancee … As
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Ray Batchelor adds, 16th March 2017: According to the original source [link below], a website selling old things or things which look old, “This appears to be a re-issue of a 1920’s-30’s postcard…. or perhaps made to appear so. Clearly marked on the back as of 1982 vintage. Interesting postcard
Ray Batchelor writes: “The artwork is signed by Luiz Usabal Y Hernandez. This image came from a Roumanian tango website: http://tango-timisoara.blogspot.co.uk/2012_06_01_archive.html Rasfoiesc internetul in cautarea unui raspuns si a mai multor variante/opinii legate de "femeile sa conduca in Tango" Parerile sunt variate, cele mai multe tin de eticheta in dans
Ray Batchelor writes: “I know nothing reliable about this image. I found it on a Finnish tango website : http://argentiinalainentango.ning.com/profiles/blogs/vilkas-tangotorstai-tulossa It says nothing about the image at all. It probably makes more sense considered as part of the postcard series to which it undoubtedly belongs – but I am
Ray Batchelor writes: “I have yet to find reliable information about this image I believe it to be one in a series, French, about 1913. There is a catalogue code, bottom left hand corner which may mean something to a postcard enthusiast and help identify it more accurately. It seesm
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