Tableau Vivant: Picasso's 'L'Arlequin'

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Tableau Vivant: Picasso's 'L'Arlequin'

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Brassaï

Photographer · 1899–1984

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After moving to Paris in 1924, Gyula Halász renamed himself Brassaï, after his hometown of Brasso, Hungary. In Paris he worked as a journalist and painter until around 1929, when he took up photography on the advice of fellow Hungarian André Kertész. A natural storyteller, Brassaï revealed his unscientific yet practical method of making exposures of Paris at night: *To gauge my shutter time, I wou

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Date
1951
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
218699a6-24e6-49ba-ad96-59b1d268f193

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This picture was made at a costume party given by Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles in Paris. The subjects are the actor Claude Romain and the illustrator Valentine Hugo, the ex wife of the artist Jean Hugo, posing in a tableau vivant of Picasso's l'Arlequin.

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