Collection Online as of May 28, 2023

Large Net to Capture the Wind

1948

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Marcel G. Lefrancq

(Belgian, 1916–1974)

Belgium, 20th century

Gelatin silver prints, ferrotyped

Image: 12.2 x 16.5 cm (4 13/16 x 6 1/2 in.); Paper: 22.9 x 16.5 cm (9 x 6 1/2 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2007.67.16

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

each image is titled and authenticated by son on verso

Inscription

Written in pencil on verso of print: "Grands filets à capturer le vent/M LEFRANCQ 16"

Provenance

The artist's estate, Mons, Belgium

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. 153, no. 106; mentioned: p. 218; reproduced: p. 219.

Exhibition history

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