Nancy López. Buenos Aires. Circa 1960.

Vintage gelatin silver photograph -Measures: 24.3 x 18.1 cm / 9.56 x 7.12 in-, loose, signed on the original. On the back, the wet stamp of the photographer with her address and telephone number in the city of Buenos Aires.

Beautiful full-length portrait of the Argentine dancer Nancy López, made in the studio of Annemarie Heinrich. The precise and complex lighting not only accentuates the volumes of her body, which unfurls a classical ballet position -an arm-along third-, but also casts a double shadow on the plain background of the studio.

Nancy López (Buenos Aires, 1935 - 2014) was an outstanding Argentine dancer at the Teatro Colón. Since she was a child she studied at the Dance School of said theater with teacher Aida Mastrazzi, graduating in 1954. She began acting in 1956 in the opera Bodas de Sangre by Juan José Castro, in 1957 she appeared in Capricho Italiano and in Los Jovenes Tártaros de las Polovtsian Dances, integrating the Stable Dance Corps of the Teatro Colón. In 1962 she unanimously obtained the position of Soloist Dancer, and in 1966 she reached the rank of First Dancer. In 1962 the dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar chose her for her Ícaro de ella, and Jack Carter for the premiere of Moriana, by Roberto García Morillo. In addition to the classical repertoire that he unfolded with lyricism and technique (Sylphs, Suite en Blanque, Coppelia, Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Romeo and Juliet), he premiered many different choreographies, such as Seven Very Unfortunate Princesses by Guillermo Graetzer- Amalia Lozano, Snow White by Luis Gianneo-Mercedes Quintana, Halo by Tomasso Albinoni-Oscar Aráiz, The Moor of Venice by Boris Blacher-Tatiana Gsovsky, among many others.

Annemarie Heinrich (1912 - 1985), of German origin, was one of the most outstanding portrait painters, having already learned her trade in Argentina, where she moved with her family in 1926. She was characterized by artistically documenting the most important figures of theater, cinema, dance and the arts in Argentina since the 1940s. A collaborator of the social magazines of that time -especially, "Radiolandia" included her as the star photographer of its staff- Heinrich encouraged her studies in the management of laboratory work with remarkable results. Annemarie Heinrich is considered an icon of Argentine artistic photography of the 20th century. She documented with her camera the national artistic figures and all those who visited us; especially those linked to the world of ballet, a particular attraction that led her to publish her great book: Ballet in Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1962), a collector's item.

S.O. XV-GEM