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Ratna Mohini
Indonesian dancer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ratna "Elie" Mohini (17 May 1904 – 24 October 1988)[1] was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1937 to 1967.[2]
She was born in Batavia as Carolina Jeanne de Souza-IJke.[1] Ratna was known as "Elie" to her friends.[3] Between 1930 and 1935 she was married to the Dutch journalist Willem L. Berretty.
Cartier-Bresson and Mohini divorced in 1967, after 30 years of marriage, and Cartier-Bresson then married the photographer Martine Franck in 1970.[4]
Mohini died in Paris in 1988.
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