The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Young Couple Wearing a Two-in-One Suit at the Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève
c. 1931 (printed mid-1950s)
(French, 1899–1984)
Image: 29.8 x 22.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.40
© The Brassaï Estate - RMN
Location: not on view
Description
Brassaï wrote about attending one of the large drag balls held in Paris and attended by people of every class, race, and age: "Every entrance and every costume gave rise to shrieks of surprise, cries of astonishment, of joy. . . . Two young men wrapped in each other’s arms had to demonstrate the perfect union of their souls, their bodies-dressed in a singlesuit: one was wearing the jacket, with his legs and buttocks naked; the other wore the pants, his torso and feet bare, since he had given his boyfriend the only pair of shoes."- Madame Brassai [1920-2005], Paris(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)2007David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NYThe Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- 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. cat. no. 139, p. 183Combalía Dexeus, Victoria. París y los surrealistas. Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. p. 230
- Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).París y los Surrealistas.. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain (February 18-May 22, 2005); Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao (June 20-September 18, 2005).
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