id:			165101
accession number:	2007.112
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.112
updated:		2023-08-24 00:16:40.674000

Woman with a Comb, c. 1930. Franz Roh (German, 1890–1965). Gelatin silver print from an internegative ; image: 23.6 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.); paper: 25.6 x 19.8 cm (10 1/16 x 7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.112

title:				Woman with a Comb
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creation date:			c. 1930
creation date earliest:		1925
creation date latest:		1935
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print from an internegative 
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - German 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Franz Roh (German, 1890–1965)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 23.6 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 25.6 x 19.8 cm (10 1/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "Vanity Fair requested by Freeman/West/141"
Written in pencil in lower left corner: "$1"
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	inscription:	Blue stamp on verso of mount: "Dr. Franz Roh/münchen 39/Pickelstrasse 11/Telefon 60277"
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	inscription:	Typed label on verso of mount: "2) Woman (No. 67) with a comb, by Franz Roh"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy
	opening date:   2004-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy</i>. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).

	title:		Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
	opening date:   2014-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Sotheby's, New York, NY, Oct. 12, 2000, no. 241, sold to David Raymond)
	date: October 12, 2000
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	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
	date: 2000-2007
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2007-
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An art historian and critic, Roh authored an influential early publication promoting new German photography, <em>Foto-auge</em> (Photo eye), which included this image. A number of modernists, including Roh, sometimes produced work tinged with Surrealism’s love of the odd and uncanny. Roh created the negative effect in <em>Woman with a Comb</em> by exposing a new frame of film to the original negative. This created a positive internegative that when printed, yielded a negative image.
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RELATED WORKS

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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.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 174, no. 125; reproduced and mentioned: p. 233.
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	Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 77; mentioned p. 124.
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