Yvonne George

Yvonne George was discovered singing in a cabaret in Brussels, the city of her birth, and became a favorite performer among Paris artists and intellectuals. She fell in love with French surrealist poet Robert Desnos, who dedicated a number of his writings to her. Nickolas Muray captured George, looking moody in an off-the-shoulder black velvet dress, in this photograph, which appeared in the February 1926 Vanity Fair.