Raoul Ubac
Untitled
1926-1936
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Raoul Ubac
Untitled
1926-1936
Physical Qualities
Collage of gelatin silver prints and colored paper, Image: 342 x 350 mm. (13 7/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.603
Collage came into widespread use in the second decade of the twentieth century. (The term “collage” derives from the French verb “coller,” meaning “to glue” or “to paste.”) In the four examples displayed here, the artists cut photographs and combined them with other media on a common support. This technique enabled artists to transform relationships between familiar objects—in Raoul Ubac’s case, a woman’s face and a glass bottle—to suggest bizarre spatial effects.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase; Estate of Otto Coenen
BMA, Cone Wing rotation (Sarah Oppenheimer), 3 June 2013 - 1 September 2013.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
Katy Rothkopf, Darsie Alexander and Helen Molesworth, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948," 24 September - 4 December, 2001.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection, " 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
Katy Rothkopf, Darsie Alexander and Helen Molesworth, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948," 24 September - 4 December, 2001.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection, " 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Christian Bouqueret. "Raoul Ubac: Photographie." Paris: Editions Léo Scheer, 2000, p. 219, no. 5., repr.
Inscribed: None
Markings: None
