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Collection Online as of April 20, 2024

Dancer George Pomiès

Dancer George Pomiès

1929
(French, 1897–1984)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print, montage
Image: 23.7 x 17.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 7/8 in.); Mounted: 31.2 x 23.7 cm (12 5/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.127
Location: not on view

Description

Tabard combineS dramatic shadows and multiple shots to simultaneously present the dancers’ physical expressiveness and provide insight into their inner life as they dance. Modern dance, a flourishing, influential art form in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, attracted numerous avant-garde photographers who took advantage of the new, smaller, more mobile 35 mm cameras and faster film speeds to try to evoke a sense of the performance.
  • Robert Shapazian [1942-2010], Los Angeles, CA
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    Wednesday, October 23, 2002
    (Sotheby's, New York, NY, Oct. 23, 2002, no. 86, sold to David Raymond)
    2002-2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
  • 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. 62; reproduced: p. 66; reproduced: p. 236; mentioned p. 237.
    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. 71; mentioned p. 124.
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    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).
  • {{cite web|title=Dancer George Pomiès|url=false|author=Maurice Tabard|year=1929|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.127