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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Stairwell and Plants in Kew Gardens

Stairwell and Plants in Kew Gardens

1934
(French, 1907–1997)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Image: 28 x 24 cm (11 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 30.5 x 24 cm (12 x 9 7/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.76
© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view

Description

Photographing the interior of the Kew Gardens Palm House in London, Maar juxtaposes the botanical ornaments and structure of its distinctive Victorian ironwork staircase with the lacy, far less regimented leaves and trunks of the plants. Botanical studies by Maar in the Raymond collection contrast profuse foliage with spare, geometric built elements.
  • The artist's estate, Paris
    November 19, 1999
    (PIASA, Paris, Nov. 19, 1999, no. 87, sold to David Raymond)
    1999-2007
    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. Mentioned: p. 101; reproduced: p. 107; mentioned: p. 224; reproduced: p. 225.
    Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes. [Marseille]: Musées de Marseille, 2000. Reproduced: p. 106, no. 76; mentioned: pp. 266.
    Maar, Dora, and Victoria Combalía Dexeus. Dora Maar: Haus der Kunst München, 13. Oktober 2001-6. Januar 2002 ; Musées de Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 20. Januar-4. Mai 2002 ; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, L'Hospitalet Barcelona, 15. Mai- 15. Juli 2002. München: Haus der Kunst München, 2001. Reproduced: p. 124, no. 78; mentioned: pp. 324.
    Ades, Dawn. "Chance Encounters and the 'Modern Marvelous'." In Dora Maar, 77-98. Eds., Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019. Reproduced: p. 97, Plate 107.
  • Dora Maar. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (organizer) (June 5-July 28, 2019); Tate Modern (November 19, 2019-March 15, 2020).
    Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les Surréalistes. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (October 13, 2001-January 6, 2002); Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (February 7-April 30, 2002); Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet, Spain (May 21-July 15, 2002).
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