id: 165639 accession number: 2007.67.11 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.67.11 updated: 2022-01-04 17:41:23.849000 In the Hands of Light: Images and Poems: Hope Is beyond the Window, 1948. Marcel G. Lefrancq (Belgian, 1916-1974). Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped; image: 22.9 x 15.2 cm (9 x 6 in.); paper: 22.9 x 16.3 cm (9 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.67.11 © Marcel G. Lefrancq title: Hope Is beyond the Window title in original language: series: In the Hands of Light: Images and Poems series in original language: creation date: 1948 creation date earliest: 1948 creation date latest: 1948 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © Marcel G. Lefrancq --- culture: Belgium, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print, ferrotyped department: Photography collection: PH - Misc. 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Marcel G. Lefrancq (Belgian, 1916-1974) - artist --- measurements: Image: 22.9 x 15.2 cm (9 x 6 in.); Paper: 22.9 x 16.3 cm (9 x 6 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: each image is titled and authenticated by son on verso translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of print: "L'espoir est au dela de la fenêtre/ M LEFRANCQ 11" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography opening date: 2014-10-19T00:00:00 Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE The artist's estate, Mons, Belgium date: footnotes: citations: David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2007- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: During World War II, Marcel G. Lefrancq took photographs for fake IDs for Jews attempting to escape Belgium. digital description: In works such as this one, Marcel G. Lefrancq presented views of daily life in his native city, Mons, from an unexpected perspective. A woman stands inside a room looking out the window in a reversal of the standard version of such imagery: rather than being seen from indoors, landscape enters the space in the form of a creeping vine. Lefrancq published it in a photographic portfolio, where it was featured alongside similarly evocative poetry. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. 150, no. 103; mentioned: p. 218; reproduced: p. 219. url: --- IMAGES