The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 20, 2024

Hope Is beyond the Window

Hope Is beyond the Window

1948
(Belgian, 1916–1974)
Belgium, 20th century
gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Image: 22.9 x 15.2 cm (9 x 6 in.); Paper: 22.9 x 16.3 cm (9 x 6 7/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.67.11
© Marcel G. Lefrancq
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

During World War II, Marcel G. Lefrancq took photographs for fake IDs for Jews attempting to escape Belgium.

Description

In works such as this one, Marcel G. Lefrancq presented views of daily life in his native city, Mons, from an unexpected perspective. A woman stands inside a room looking out the window in a reversal of the standard version of such imagery: rather than being seen from indoors, landscape enters the space in the form of a creeping vine. Lefrancq published it in a photographic portfolio, where it was featured alongside similarly evocative poetry.
  • The artist's estate, Mons, Belgium
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    2007-
    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. Reproduced: p. 150, no. 103; mentioned: p. 218; reproduced: p. 219.
  • Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
    Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Hope Is beyond the Window|url=false|author=Marcel G. Lefrancq|year=1948|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.67.11