The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Three rows of four black-and-white photographs of Maurice de Vlaminck, a man with light skin tone, wrinkled face, and flat, sparse hair photographed from the knees up, seated, wearing a button-down shirt tucked into his trousers, a scarf tucked into the shirt, and a coat. In most photographs he holds up a pipe in his left hand, in the upper left photo his right, and in the bottom right three he relaxes his arms down in his lap.

Maurice de Vlaminck, Normandy

1951

Irving Penn

(American, 1917–2009)
America
gelatin silver prints, ferrotyped, mounted on card
Mounted: 18.9 x 27.9 cm (7 7/16 x 11 in.)
Gift from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz 2020.19
© The Irving Penn Foundation
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The contact sheet is a twentieth-century phenomenon.

Description

The contact sheet—a piece of photographic paper which contains positive prints of some or all of the negatives on a roll of film—was necessitated by the advent of roll film, which produced small negatives, and rendered obsolete with the advent of digital photography. Having access to a photographer’s contact reveals the artist's thoughts and working processes.
  • Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz, Cleveland, OH
    February 5, 2020
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-November 29, 2020).
  • {{cite web|title=Maurice de Vlaminck, Normandy|url=false|author=Irving Penn|year=1951|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.19