The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 1, 2022

Double Exposure, Robert Couturier

1931

Roger Parry

(French, 1905-1977)

France, 20th century

Gelatin silver print, montage

Overall: 17.4 x 22.9 cm (6 7/8 x 9 in.); Mounted: 30.9 x 23.9 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2007.106

© Ministère de la Culture / Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN

Location

not on view

Description

Parry met sculptor Robert Couturier around 1923 when they were both taking evening classes at the École des Arts Décoratifs.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Written in black ink on recto of mount: "R. Parry (signed)"

Provenance
The artist's estate, Paris
(Grob Gallery, London)
(Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY)
David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
2007-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
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. 70, no. 37; mentioned: p. 231.
Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. Reproduced: p. 31; mentioned p. 124.
Exhibition history

Roger Parry: Vintage Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s. Zabriskie Gallery (February 11-March 15, 1986).

Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).

Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.106