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At the White Ball, Montparnasse

At the White Ball, Montparnasse

1932
(French, 1899–1984)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Image: 24 x 18.1 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.39
© The Brassaï Estate - RMN
Location: not on view

Description

This image was taken at one of several dancehalls in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris in the 1930s that offered Caribbean music for the enjoyment of both blacks and whites who ate, drank, and danced together.
  • Madame Brassai [1920-2005], Paris
    (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
    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. 138, p. 183
    Combalía Dexeus, Victoria. París y los surrealistas. Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. p. 224
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    París y los Surrealistas.. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain (February 18-May 22, 2005); Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao (June 20-September 18, 2005).
  • {{cite web|title=At the White Ball, Montparnasse|url=false|author=Brassaï|year=1932|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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