The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Painting of a Necklace

Painting of a Necklace

1931
(French, 1894–1986)
Image: 13.8 x 7.8 cm (5 7/16 x 3 1/16 in.); Paper: 14.4 x 8.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue © Ministère de la Culture - France / AAJHL
Location: not on view

Description

Socoa is a small village on the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest corner of France. The woman is Renée Perle, the artist’s lover and muse in 1930–32 and probably the creator of the painting behind the necklace.
  • May 4, 2001
    (Étude Tajan, Paris, May 4, 2001, no. 44. sold to David Raymond)
    2001-2007
    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. 182, no. 135; 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=Painting of a Necklace|url=false|author=Jacques-Henri Lartigue|year=1931|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.65