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Collection Online as of June 6, 2023

In a Far Off Country

1948

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Marcel G. Lefrancq

(Belgian, 1916–1974)

Belgium, 20th century

Gelatin silver prints, ferrotyped

Image: 22.8 x 15.7 cm (9 x 6 3/16 in.); Paper: 22.8 x 16.4 cm (9 x 6 7/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2007.67.20

© Marcel G. Lefrancq

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

each image is titled and authenticated by son on verso

Inscription

Written in pencil on verso of print: "En pays lointain/M LEFRANCQ 20"

Provenance
The artist's estate, Mons, Belgium
David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
2007-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
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. 156, no. 109; mentioned: p. 218; reproduced: p. 219.
Exhibition history

Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.67.20