id:			165696
accession number:	2007.99
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.99
updated:		2025-01-13 13:06:57.685000

Lobster Claw, c. 1929. Jean Painlevé (French, 1902–1989). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.9 x 17.3 cm (9 x 6 13/16 in.); paper: 24.2 x 18.4 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.99

title:				Lobster Claw
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creation date:			c. 1929
creation date earliest:		1928
creation date latest:		1929
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - French 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Jean Painlevé (French, 1902–1989)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 22.9 x 17.3 cm (9 x 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 24.2 x 18.4 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in blue ink on verso: "Pince de Homard"
Written in pencil on verso: "Jean Painleve/1928"

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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

	The artist's family, Paris
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	Alain Paviot, Paris
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	Jack Banning [1931-2005], New York, NY
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	(Ubu Gallery, New York, NY)
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	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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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: 	Mentioned: p. 53; reproduced: p. 55; reproduced and mentioned: p. 229.
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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. 82; mentioned p. 122.
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	Heu Bernard. "Pour le cineaste Painleve, les vedettes sont millimetrees." Telemagazine 168 (January 1959): 8-9.
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