
Chuck Close
A Couple of Ways of Doing Something
2003
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André Kertész
1945
This portrait of Peggy Guggenheim shows her in her duplex apartment at 155 East 61st Street, New York. Behind her is a painting by Paul Delvaux, The Break of Day (1937), indicating Peggy’s commitment to Surrealist art. The menacing shadow is cast by a bottle decorated by her former husband, Laurence Vail, and the device of reflecting (and deforming) the sitter in a convex mirror recalls André Kertész's Surrealist photography of the 1930s.
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Artist | André Kertész |
Date | 1945 |
Medium | Gelatin-silver print |
Dimensions | 24.1 x 19.4 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Gift, Canton Argovia, Switzerland, In recognition of the origin of the Guggenheim family in Lengnau |
Accession | 2001.43 |
Collection | Acquisitions |
Type | Photograph |
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Chuck Close
2003
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Unrecorded Nayarit artist (Ixtlán del Río culture)
300 BCE–400 CE
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Alberto Giacometti
1947–48
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Jean (Hans) Arp
1936
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