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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1995.92
People
Lucien Clergue, French (Arles, France 1934 - 2014 Nîmes, France)
Title
Untitled (bullfight)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: El Cordobès
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1965
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/282605

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 60.7 x 50 cm (23 7/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lucien Clergue
  • inscription: stamped in blue ink with blue ink inscriptions (noted in brackets) on verso, lower left: Lucien Clergue a tiré dans son atelier à Arles-sur-Rhône, [20] exemplaires de cette photographie extraite de la suite: [El Cordobès descabello 1965 Nimes Ex no 1]; stamped in blue ink with blue ink inscriptions (noted in brackets) on verso, lower center: PHOTOGRAPHIES Lucien CLERGUE ARLES-SUR-RHONE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE [ref .]; inscribed in blue ink on verso, lower right: Lucien Clergue.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Willy and Charlotte Reber, Valbella, Switzerland, from the artist, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Gift of Charlotte Reber
Copyright
© Lucien Clergue Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY / SAIF, Paris
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
P1995.92
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jean-Marie Magnan and Jean Cocteau, Toros Muertos, Ernst Battenberg Verlag (Stuttgart, Germany, 1963), unpaginated
  • Paco Tolosa and Robert Marteau, El Cordobès: 77 Photographies de Lucien Clergue, La Jeune Parque (Paris, France?, 1965)

Verification Level

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