[Sylvia BEACH].

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[Sylvia BEACH].
George Antheil climbing the façade of Shakespeare and Company. No place or date [Paris, ca. 1923]. Original photograph, silver print (25.4 x 20.7 cm). Famous photograph: composer George Antheil climbing the front of the bookshop Shakespeare and Company under the amused eyes of its owner, Sylvia Beach. "Bad boy" of contemporary music, the American pianist and composer George Antheil (1900-1959) had begun a European tour in May 1922. He moved to Paris in 1923 and stayed at Sylvia Beach's house, where he met the literary and artistic avant-garde of the time: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Hemingway, Man Ray, Fernand Léger, Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, etc. On October 4, 1923, at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées, he played his works as the opening act for the Swedish Ballets. His Ballet mécanique created in 1926 was a failure that put an end to his work. The bookshop, at 12 rue de l'Odéon, was the epicentre of the cosmopolitan intellectual life of the time. Marks of folds and some scratches.
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