Sheila Metzner
Jeanne Moreau in Striped Kimono

Jeanne Moreau in Striped Kimono
Jeanne Moreau in Striped Kimono
Jeanne Moreau in Striped Kimono
ArtistAmerican, born 1939
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Jeanne Moreau in Striped Kimono
Date1983
MediumFresson print
DimensionsImage: 16 1/16 × 10 13/16 in. (40.8 × 27.5 cm)
Sheet: 21 11/16 × 15 3/4 in. (55.1 × 40 cm)
Credit LineThe Sonia and Kaye Marvins Portrait Collection, museum purchase funded by Sonia and Kaye Marvins
Object number85.143
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Description

The opening of Japan to trade in
1859 unlocked the doors of a stylistically rich and organic art tradition to an
eager Western audience and paved the way to the Art Nouveau and Modernist
movements. Painters, sculptors, ceramicists, designers, printmakers, and
photographers quickly assimilated many aspects of Japan's art into their own
work. Japanism champions subtlety of line, absence of symmetry, and
simplification of realistic form, and it also holds as a fundamental law of
beauty that the artwork be structurally self-contained.





Sheila Metzner's photograph of the
French actress Jeanne Moreau is itself a reflection of this artistic tradition,
but other artist's interpretations of Japanism also are included as
counterpoints. An amorphously shaped Noguchi side table topped by a geometrically
decorated Favrile vase echoes the figuration of the actress. Moreau, completely
enveloped in a floor-length striped kimono, seems to sprout from the floor beneath
her gown. The stripes and folds swirl upward in sensuous curves which are
repeated in the lines of the vase and table.




Provenance[Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1985.
Exhibition History"Past/Present: Photography from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 8, 1991–February 9, 1992.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left edge in pencil "ONE OF A KIND"
top right edge "SM80.20CP-1"
bottom right below image in pencil "SM"
verso bottom edge in pencil "SHEILA METZNER 1985"
recto center of bottom margin a blind stamp "SHEILA METZNER / PHOTOGRAPH / MICHEL FRESSON PRINT"

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