Thursday, October 08, 2009

Modern sensibility

The tragic ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq, photographed in 1948 by Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009).

3 comments:

Claire said...

92...that's hardly a bad innings. Or were those 92 years of sorrow?

LottieP said...

Tanaquil was paralysed by polio at the age of 27 and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair. She lived until she was 71. It's Irving Penn who's just died, at the age of 92.

Claire said...

Ah, how did I get that so terribly wrong?