Eugène Atget
Toupée Shop, Palais Royal
1926-1927
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Eugène Atget
Toupée Shop, Palais Royal
1926-1927
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 169 x 223 mm. (6 5/8 x 8 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
1988.219
Matthias Mansen is interested in exploring the formal concerns of color, shape, and space in prints dealing with everyday experience. Here we see two images combined—an anonymous, abstract figure, and two hands with woodcut tools on a table. Mansen creates his woodcuts by using multiple woodblocks carved from found materials (such as old furniture), ensuring that each impression is unique in its inking and printing. Keen to show the process whereby his prints were made, Mansen relishes leaving greasy traces of ink around the edges of his imagery.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, 'Parallel Tracks,' Nov. 27, 2002-May 25, 2003.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November 1989.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, 'Parallel Tracks,' Nov. 27, 2002-May 25, 2003.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November 1989.
John Szarkowski and Marie Morris Hambourg, The Work of Atget, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1985, p. 135, pl. 99 (v. 4)
Inscribed: lower right in negative: "53"; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: ".0001'
