Location

not on view

Description

An art historian and critic, Roh authored an influential early publication promoting new German photography, Foto-auge (Photo eye), which included this image. A number of modernists, including Roh, sometimes produced work tinged with Surrealism’s love of the odd and uncanny. Roh created the negative effect in Woman with a Comb by exposing a new frame of film to the original negative. This created a positive internegative that when printed, yielded a negative image.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Written in pencil on verso: "Vanity Fair requested by Freeman/West/141" Written in pencil in lower left corner: "$1"

Inscription

Blue stamp on verso of mount: "Dr. Franz Roh/münchen 39/Pickelstrasse 11/Telefon 60277"

Inscription

Typed label on verso of mount: "2) Woman (No. 67) with a comb, by Franz Roh"

Provenance

October 12, 2000

(Sotheby's, New York, NY, Oct. 12, 2000, no. 241, sold to David Raymond)

2000-2007

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. 174, no. 125; reproduced and mentioned: p. 233.

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. 77; mentioned p. 124.

Exhibition history

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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).