Jean Moral
Mode (Schiaparelli)

Mode (Schiaparelli)

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Mode (Schiaparelli)
Mode (Schiaparelli)
ArtistAmerican, 1906–1999
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Mode (Schiaparelli)
Date1938
MediumGelatin silver print and offset lithograph collage
DimensionsImage: 6 13/16 × 9 3/16 in. (17.3 × 23.3 cm)
Sheet: 6 13/16 × 9 3/16 in. (17.3 × 23.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2018
Object number2018.178
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Jean Moral’s dynamic
graphic style brought vigor and excitement to fashion editorials, shaping the
image of the glamorously adventurous 20th-century woman. To create this unique
collage, Moral affixed a trimmed gelatin silver print of a model wearing a Schiaparelli
jacket onto a 1935 advertisement for a French wine retailer. The graphic
dreamscape in
Mode (Schiaparelli) is a perfect example of fashion’s close relationship to Surrealism in the
1930s. Like Schiaparelli, who collaborated with artists including Jean Cocteau,
Salvador Dalí, and Meret Oppenheim, Moral was at the cutting edge of this
fusion of fashion and fine art.




Provenance[Gitterman Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition History"Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 23–September 22, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, recto, bottom right: J M 38

Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: Jean Moral // 1938
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom right: 17,3 x 23,3

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