Pioneer of modern dance, encouraging a spontaneous personal style. After European concert successes, she founded schools of dancing in Gemany, the USSR, and the US. She was strangled by a scarf caught in a car wheel in 1927. Vintage glossy 5 x 7 head-and-shoulders portrait photo of Duncan looking pensively towards the sky, signed in the upper right corner in fountain pen. In fine condition, with some scattered light surface marks and bends and a tape remnant on reverse. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
