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        "tombstone": "Untitled , c. 1926. \u00c9douard L\u00e9on Th\u00e9odore Mesens (Belgian, 1903\u20131971). Collodion silver printing-out paper, photogram; image: 17.9 x 23.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 3/8 in.); mounted: 28.2 x 35.8 cm (11 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2007.95. \u00a9 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels",
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        "title": "Untitled ",
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                "inscription": "letter from nephew",
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                    "title": "Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography",
                    "description": "<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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            {
                "description": "Adrien Dubucq, Belgium",
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                "description": "(Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY)",
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                "description": "(Ubu Gallery, New York, NY)",
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                "date": "early 90s-2000",
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                "description": "David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY",
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        "description": "Writer, composer, art dealer, and key figure in the Surrealist movement in Belgium, Mesens experimented with photograms only from 1924 to 1930. This image employs everyday objects: two leaves, one or more drinking glasses, and razor blades. The latter may be an autobiographical reference: a bit of a dandy, Mesens shaved three times a day. The seeming solidity of the objects, ranging from solid to translucent and shadowy to crisp, was altered by leaving them on the paper for varying amounts of time. His use of collodion printing-out paper, which develops slowly in sunlight without a chemical developer, suggests this may have been one of his earliest experiments with photography.",
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                "citation": "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.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:48.142000"
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