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Two Acrobats, Cirque Médrano in Paris

Two Acrobats, Cirque Médrano in Paris

1932–1933
(French, 1899–1984)
Image: 27.7 x 23.4 cm (10 7/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
© The Brassaï Estate - RMN
Location: not on view

Description

Picasso had been depicting the performers at the Cirque Médrano in Paris since 1905. On the back of another print of this image, Brassaï noted that he had gone to the circus with Picasso, who several days later produced another series about the circus inspired by these same aerialists.
  • Madame Brassaï [1920-2005], Paris
    (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
    2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], NY
    The 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. 132, p. 180
    Combalía Dexeus, Victoria. París y los surrealistas. Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. p. 230
    Brassai and Popper. "Tigers, Tumblers, and the Flying Trapeze." Lilliput 23, no 6 (December 1948): 70. p. 70
  • 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).
  • {{cite web|title=Two Acrobats, Cirque Médrano in Paris|url=false|author=Brassaï|year=1932–1933|access-date=26 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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