Collection Online as of June 25, 2022
1933
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Image: 24.2 x 17.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.83
© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Description In 1933 Maar traveled to Barcelona and Tossa del Mar in Spain for an art magazine assignment. While there, she documented the country’s extreme poverty through portraits of individuals she encountered on the streets.
Inscriptions
Inscription Written in black ink on verso: "522 DM"
Inscription Black stamp on verso of print: "KÉFER-DORA MAAR/MENTION OBLIGATOIRE" and "45 bis BD. RICAHARD WALLACE/NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE"
Inscription Purple stamp on verso of print: "Edition 'Tilleul'/Paris"
Inscription Written in blue pencil on verso of print: [illegible]
Provenance November 18, 2000
(Étude Tajan, Paris, Nov. 18, 2000, no. 345, sold to David Raymond)
2000-2007
David Raymond [b.1979], NY
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. 38, no. 13; reproduced and mentioned: p. 101, pp. 266.
Combalia, Victoria. "Dora Maar, Street Photographer: Barcelona and London." In Dora Maar, 52-76. Eds., Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019. Reproduced: p. 63, Plate 65.
Exhibition history
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
Dora Maar . Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (organizer) (June 5-July 28, 2019); Tate Modern (November 19, 2019-March 15, 2020).
