Feet of the Giants
Original Language TitlePied de Géants
Artist
Léonard Misonne
(Belgian, 1870 - 1943)
Date1929
MediumBromoil print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 1/2 × 15 15/16 inches (29.21 × 40.46 cm)
Mount: 12 13/16 × 16 3/4 inches (32.59 × 42.55 cm)
Mount: 12 13/16 × 16 3/4 inches (32.59 × 42.55 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.135
SignedSigned on recto of tissue cover sheet, center, in pencil: "L Misonne / Fragile";
Signed and dated on image recto, lower left, in pencil: "Leonard Misonne / 1929".
InscribedOn mount verso, upper right, in pencil: ""Pieds de geants" / Leonard Misonne / gilly (Belgique)".
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper left corner, white label with blue pen: "94";
On mount verso, right edge, in pencil: "no575/2916";
On mount verso, top, in pencil: "201";
On mount verso, center, in pencil: "[?] / -4711-";
On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "2.66".
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a forest. Three tall trees with exposed roots in the foreground and light is diffused through the rows of trees in the background.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
Léonard Misonne was a leading artistic photographer from the 1890s through the 1930s. He worked in a variety of processes in his career, including the relatively permanent bromoil and carbon printing techniques. Renowned in particular for his landscape work, Misonne specialized in painterly atmospheric effects and a masterful rendering of shadow and light.
with Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York, NY by 1997;
Purchased from Keith de Lellis by Howard Stein (1926-2011) , New York, NY, 1995;
Given by Howard Steing to The Joy of Giving Foundation, New York, NY;
Purchased at The Joy of Giving Foundation's sale The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something, Phillips, New York, NY, October 3, 2017, lot 80 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Purchased from Keith de Lellis by Howard Stein (1926-2011) , New York, NY, 1995;
Given by Howard Steing to The Joy of Giving Foundation, New York, NY;
Purchased at The Joy of Giving Foundation's sale The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something, Phillips, New York, NY, October 3, 2017, lot 80 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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