Femme avec coiffure ouvragée en forme d’éventail, Fouta-Djalon, Guinée (Woman with Fan-Shaped Hairstyle, Fouta Djallon, Guinea)

1939

Denise Bellon

Associated Names
Denise Bellon

Artist, French, 1902 - 1999

The image features the upper half of a woman's body against a textured surface. She is lying on her side with her head resting on her hand. Her facial expression is calm, her eyes are looking away from the camera, and her lips are slightly parted. She has an intricate headdress with circular accessories and is wearing multiple neck rings. The background is a woven or reed-like texture with shadows and highlights adding depth to the scene.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of the Gallery Girls

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.9 × 20.6 cm (8 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.76.1

  • Copyright

    ARTIST RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED FOR THIS WORK OF ART. © Denise Bellon / akg-images

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, PA); NGA purchase (through L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York), 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • The New Woman Behind the Camera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022, no. 184.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 9510; upper right in graphite: 12913; stamped, center in blue ink with graphite inscriptions: Commissar[iat Gén]éral / à / L‘information / R[eproduction] autorisée / N. [in graphite: 1287] Signé: / [?? ???] le [in graphite: 14 - 5] 19 [in graphite: 41]; stamped, center right in green ink with inscriptions in black marker: Photo Denise BELLON / Cliché No. [in black marker: 9510]; stamped, lower center in red ink: ALLIANCE PROFelle DE LA PRESSE ET DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE / APP / 25, Rue Faldherbe - VICHY; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: P1448DB

Wikidata ID

Q64146563

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