Nimet Eloui Bey
(c. 1930)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
23.0 × 15.8 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
At her Paris studio, Lee Miller photographed this self-assured portrait of Egyptian model Nimet Eloui Bey. The model’s direct, inescapable gaze grips the viewer, perhaps foreshadowing the conflict to come. In the years after Miller took this portrait, she and her subject’s businessman husband, Aziz Eloui Bey, would pursue a passionate affair, resulting in divorce and the explosive end to Miller’s relationship with artist Man Ray. After leaving Paris, Miller set up a successful new studio in New York in 1932, before marrying Aziz and moving with him to Cairo.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
inscribed in pencil (in image) l.r: Lee Miller
Accession Number
2022.123
Department
International Photography