The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Lee Miller
1930
(American, 1890–1976)
Image: 8.8 x 6.2 cm (3 7/16 x 2 7/16 in.); Paper: 9 x 6.2 cm (3 9/16 x 2 7/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.92
© 2013 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view
Description
This photograph was the final purchase made by David Raymond for his collection. He had long hunted for the right portrait of Lee Miller, the American fashion model and photographer, who was "probably my biggest art crush." Its creator, Man Ray, was an American who moved to Paris in 1921 and immediately became a key figure in the avantgarde art scene and a successful fashion and portrait photographer. Miller went to Europe in 1929 to study art, became his assistant, and learned photography from him. She also became his lover, model, and muse, and soon, a successful photographer in her own right. In 1932 she returned to America, leaving him in Paris.- Lucien Treillard, Paris(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NYThe 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 and mentioned: p. 28, p. 226.
- Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
- {{cite web|title=Lee Miller|url=false|author=Man Ray|year=1930|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.92