The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Nude

Nude

c. 1931–1933
(French, 1899–1984)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print, solarized
Image: 23.3 x 17.6 cm (9 3/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Gift of David Raymond 2008.174
© The Brassaï Estate - RMN
Location: not on view

Description

Solarization, used here by Brassaï, is a partial reversal of tones in an image caused by re-exposing a negative or positive to light during the development process. Like many of the techniques explored by Surrealist photographers, it distances the photograph from the factual recording of reality. Originally discovered in 1862 by Armand Sabattier, it was rediscovered around 1930 by Lee Miller and Man Ray.
  • Private Collection, Paris
    1999
    (Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto)
    April 24-25, 2003
    (Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, NY, Apr. 24-25, 2003, no. 99A)
    2008
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    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. cat. no. 164, p. 198
    Schneede, Uwe M. Begierde im Blick: surrealistische Photographie. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005. p. 59
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Begierde im Blick: Surrealistische Fotografie. Hamburger Kunsthalle (May 11-29, 2009).
  • {{cite web|title=Nude|url=false|author=Brassaï|year=c. 1931–1933|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.174