The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Black-and-white photograph of the back of a nude figure with light skin tone cutting diagonally across the page from the lower left corner to the upper right. The figure is visible down to the backs of the knees in the lower left, and up to shoulder length hair in the upper right.

And by Chance

c. 1930

Germaine Krull

(Polish, 1897–1985)
Poland, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 15.2 x 22 cm (6 x 8 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.62
Location: Not on view
  • Private collection, Paris
    (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    2007-
    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. Reproduced: p. 199; reproduced and mentioned: p. 216
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=And by Chance|url=false|author=Germaine Krull|year=c. 1930|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.62