The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Nude, Vasterival, Normandy

Nude, Vasterival, Normandy

1954
(British, 1904–1983)
England, 20th century
gelatin silver print with hand-applied manipulation,
Image: 23 x 19.6 cm (9 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 23.7 x 20.2 cm (9 5/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.36
© Bill Brandt Archive/ Edwynn Houk Gallery
Location: not on view

Description

The distorted, dream-like reality here is in part due to the framing, the wide angle, and deep focus of the camera used by Brandt, which was originally designed to photograph crime scenes. Taken two decades after his photograph of the Barcelona beggar in the exhibition’s City section, this image belongs to a series of female nudes shot on the beaches of the English Channel.
  • (New York auction market, New York, NY)
    early 1980s
    Ramer Collection, San Francisco, CA
    April 8, 1998
    (Christie's, New York, NY, Apr. 8, 1998, no. 240)
    2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, 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. cat. no. 23, p. 50
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Nude, Vasterival, Normandy|url=false|author=Bill Brandt|year=1954|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.36