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
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series: In the Hands of Light: Images and Poems
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creation date: 1948
creation date earliest: 1948
creation date latest: 1948
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright: © Marcel G. Lefrancq
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culture: Belgium, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
department: Photography
collection: PH - Misc. 20th Century
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Marcel G. Lefrancq (Belgian, 1916-1974) - artist
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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.)
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inscription: each image is titled and authenticated by son on verso
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso of print: "L'espoir est au dela de la fenêtre/ M LEFRANCQ 11"
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The artist's estate, Mons, Belgium
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David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2007-
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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.
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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. 150, no. 103; mentioned: p. 218; reproduced: p. 219.
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IMAGES