id:			168442
accession number:	2010.214
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.214
updated:		2025-02-09 06:45:43.497000

Jean Cocteau, 1936-c. 1940s. George Platt Lynes (American, 1907–1955). Gelatin silver print; image: 23.5 x 19.1 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.); paper: 23.5 x 19.1 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2010.214

title:				Jean Cocteau
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creation date:			1936-c. 1940s
creation date earliest:		1936
creation date latest:		1949
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1900-1950
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* George Platt Lynes (American, 1907–1955)  - artist
George Platt Lynes American, 1907-1955 Born in East Orange, New Jersey, George Platt Lynes was a successful fashion and portrait photographer during the 1930s-40s who later became known for his work focusing on the male nude. Before taking up photography, Lynes published a series of literary pamphlets featuring short works by Gertrude Stein, René Crevel, and Ernest Hemingway under the name "As Stable Productions." In 1927 he began experimenting with photography and the next year exhibited his work in his bookstore in Englewood, New Jersey. He continued to photograph, concentrating on portraiture and surrealistic still lifes, and in 1933 opened a studio in New York City. Lynes's portraits of well-known literary and artistic figures and members of the American Ballet Company helped establish his career. By the late 1930s his photographs were appearing in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and Town and Country magazines, and his clients included Henri Bendel, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman department stores. In 1945-46 he moved to California to oversee Vogue's Hollywood studio. Returning to New York in 1948, Lynes continued to photograph fashion and to make studies of the male nude figure until his death. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 23.5 x 19.1 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 23.5 x 19.1 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "OAV3506"
Written in black ink on verso: "JEAN COCTEAU"

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Artist; Monroe Wheeler, New York; Anonymous Private Collection; Charles Isaacs, New York', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

	[Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc.]
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