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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1995.125
People
Lucien Clergue, French (Arles, France 1934 - 2014 Nîmes, France)
Title
Untitled (nude)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Nus de la mer
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1964
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/283146

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 60.7 x 48.5 cm (23 7/8 x 19 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lucien Clergue
  • inscription: stamped in black 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: [Nus de la mer 1964.]; inscribed in black ink on verso, lower left: Ex no 1 pour Willy; stamped in black ink with blue ink inscriptions (noted in brackets) on verso, lower center: PHOTOGRAPHIES Lucien CLERGUE ARLES-SUR-RHONE REPRODUCTION INTERDITE [ref 2073]; 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
P1995.125
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lucien Clergue and Federico Garcia Lorca, Aphrodite, Ernst Battenberg Verlag (Stuttgart, Germany, 1963), unpaginated

Verification Level

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