Portraits of People Jawaharlal Nehru – 1955, with lion cubs; feeding panda John Huston – India, 1955, riding an elephant Henri Matisse – Cimiez, Nice, France, ca. 1948, holding a rooster Maharaja of Mysore (Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur) who invited Ylla to visit India – 1954, plus photos of many public, private & family scenes Pierre Durand-Ruel – Kenya, 1952, Ylla's companion; the prestigious Durand-Ruel gallery, Paris/New York, is widely credited with having created the careers of the Impressionists and for establishing their popularity in the United States Jacques Prévert – Saint-Paul de Vence, summer 1948; text of Le Petit Lion, 1947 and Des Bêtes..., 1950; Alexandre Trauner standing in background Varian Fry with André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba Breton and Max Ernst – Centre Américain de Secours (American Relief Center), Marseille, April 1941 Wilfredo Lam – Cuba, 1947, with "Bélial, Empereur des Mouches" ("Belial, Lord of the Flies"), completed in 1948 Count Mihály Károlyi (Michael Karolyi) – Paris, ca. 1935; Count Károlyi was the first President of the Hungarian Democratic Republic, 1918-1919 Arthur Koestler – Paris suburbs, ca. 1948 Maharaja of Bharatpur (where Ylla died) – 1955 Dennis Conan Doyle (son of Arthur) – India, 1954, with wife Nina Mdivani Ernö Goldfinger, architect – Paris, 1933, sitting with heliometer Mura Dehn, dancer – New York Benjamin Péret with his wife Remedios Varo – Marseille, March 1941   Photographs ©2008 Pryor Dodge. Links to this page are permitted. Photographs can only be reproduced with written permission and photo credit.