The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Portrait of Roger Parry

Portrait of Roger Parry

c. 1930
(French, 1897–1984)
Image: 22.6 x 17 cm (8 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.); Mounted: 31.3 x 22.9 cm (12 5/16 x 9 in.); Paper: 22.6 x 17 cm (8 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Roger Parry learned photography from Maurice Tabard by working as his studio assistant in 1928; the following year the men were hired as a team to work at an important commercial photography studio. Their collaboration extended to their personal work; they posed for each other, photographed the same avant-garde dance events, and even exchanged negatives for use in photomontages. This portrait likely took place in a photography studio given the jumble of risers and furniture and dramatic lighting. Beside Parry are two camera tripods, emblems of his profession.
  • Maurice Verneuil [1869-1942], Paris
    Monday April 6, 1998
    (Phillips, New York, NY, Apr. 6, 1998, no. 79, sold to David Raymond)
    1998-2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    2007-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Reproduced: p. 177, no. 129; reproduced and mentioned: p. 237.
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Portrait of Roger Parry|url=false|author=Maurice Tabard|year=c. 1930|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.153