The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

Beggar Woman, Barcelona

Beggar Woman, Barcelona

1933
(French, 1907–1997)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Image: 24.2 x 17.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.83
© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view

Description

In 1933 Maar traveled to Barcelona and Tossa del Mar in Spain for an art magazine assignment. While there, she documented the country’s extreme poverty through portraits of individuals she encountered on the streets.
  • November 18, 2000
    (Étude Tajan, Paris, Nov. 18, 2000, no. 345, sold to David Raymond)
    2000-2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], NY
    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. 38, no. 13; reproduced and mentioned: p. 101, pp. 266.
    Combalia, Victoria. "Dora Maar, Street Photographer: Barcelona and London." In Dora Maar, 52-76. Eds., Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019. Reproduced: p. 63, Plate 65.
  • 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).
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