The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 7, 2023

Trees and Ominous Sky

1931–1936

Dora Maar

(French, 1907–1997)

France, 20th century

Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped

Image: 28.2 x 24 cm (11 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 30.3 x 24.2 cm (11 15/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2007.82

© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Location

not on view

Provenance
The artist's estate, Paris
November 19, 1999
(PIASA, Paris, Nov. 19, 1999, no. 87, sold to David Raymond)
1999-2007
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. 115, no. 73; mentioned: pp. 223.
Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes. [Marseille]: Musées de Marseille, 2000. Reproduced: p. 105, no. 75; mentioned: pp. 266.
Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes. [Marseille]: Musées de Marseille, 2000. Reproduced: p. 122, no. 77; mentioned: pp. 324.
Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Photographer. Long Island City, NY: Dorsky Gallery, 2004.
Exhibition history

Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les Surréalistes. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (October 13, 2001-January 6, 2002); Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (February 7-April 30, 2002); Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet, Spain (May 21-July 15, 2002).

Dora Maar: Photographer. Dorsky Gallery (April 25-June 28, 2004).

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

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.82