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
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creation date:			1948
creation date earliest:		1948
creation date latest:		1948
current location:		
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
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

	title:		Stories From Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Stories From Storage</i>. 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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