He also introduced British audiences to continental performers such as Anna Pavlova and Yvette Guilbert.
A collection of her portraits, Photographing the Famous, was published in 1928, and included such luminaries as William Butler Yeats, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, Maxim Gorky, John Burroughs, Ruth St. Denis, Eleonora Duse and Yvette Guilbert.
Even in her fifties, her name still had drawing power and she appeared in several silent films (including a star turn in Murnau's Faust).
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Helena, Montana Daily Independent, Chit Chat Of Affairs Mundane In Land Of Gaul, Wednesday Morning, 10 November 1928, Page 11.
Yvette Guilbert | Bures-sur-Yvette | Yvette Chauviré | Yvette Lu | Yvette Fielding | Yvette Cooper | Yvette Cauchois | Ann Morgan Guilbert | Yvette Vickers | Yvette Nicole Brown | Yvette Estermann | ''Institut de chimie des substances naturelles'' in Gif-sur-Yvette | Georges Claude Guilbert |
He started working in various nightclubs singing his favourites from the French chansons such as those of Édith Piaf, Yvette Guilbert and Marie Dubas.
Among the painter's most famous works are portraits of his father, Marcel Proust (private collection, Paris), the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Aubrey Beardsley (National Portrait Gallery, London), and Yvette Guilbert and the infamous beauty Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione whom his father had treated for mental illness.