Juliet with Peacock Feather and Red Leaf

1937-1938

György Kepes

Associated Names
György Kepes

Artist, American, born Hungary, 1906 - 2001

The image shows a close-up of a woman's face, with her head slightly tilted to one side. Her facial features are visible, including lips and a partial view of her eyes covered by a red, lace-like leaf pattern. A dark peacock feather is placed on the left side of her face, contrasting with her skin tone. Her dark hair is styled back, and no clothing is visible. The background is nondescript and dark, emphasizing her features and the overlay elements.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with red gouache

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.7 × 11.6 cm (6 3/16 × 4 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.20.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

György Kepes; Brent Sikkema, New York; (Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago), by the early 1990s; Private Collection, New York (acquired through Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago and James Danzinger Gallery, New York), mid 1990s; (sale, Christie's, New York, 5 October 1999, no. 00114, as Untitled (Juliet with leaf overlay)); (Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago); Billy Corgan, Chicago, Fall 2000; (Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago); NGA purchase, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, March 2 - May 12, 2002

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

2002

  • Travis, David and Elizabeth Siegel, eds., Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2002: 32, cat. 89, pl. 30.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper right erased markings in graphite; artist stamp, center in black ink, rotated counter-clockwise: CREDIT / GYÖRGY KEPES

Wikidata ID

Q64154694

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