Juliet with Peacock Feather and Red Leaf

1937-1938

György Kepes

Artist, American, born Hungary, 1906 - 2001

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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

    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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