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908 - Dora Kallmus (Madam D’Ora)*
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Estimate €300 - €600
Description
Dora Kallmus (Madam D’Ora)* (Vienna 1881 – 1963 Frohnleiten) Mme Nicole of New York, (Millinery), 1937 vintage gelatin silver print 23.9 x 19.8 cm signed ‘d’Ora Paris’ on the negative small chip in the top left-hand corner, minor corner wear ESTIMATE €300 – €600 STARTING PRICE €300 Dora Philippine Kallmus, also known as Madame D’Ora or Madame d’Ora, was an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer. Her subjects included Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Tamara de Lempicka, Alban Berg, Maurice Chevalier, Colette, and other dancers, actors, painters and writers. Further artists and styles: theatre photography, dance photography, society photography, fashion photography, Art Deco photography, Jazz Age photography, Arthur Benda, Edith Glogau, Edith Barakovich, Trude Fleischmann PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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About the sale Modern Art
Auction location
Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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