About the Artwork
During the 1930s, Outerbridge enjoyed the reputation of being perhaps the finest color printer in the world. His success was rooted in achieving perfection with the carbro process, which yielded color of extraordinary quality. In addition to being expensive, carbro is painstakingly laborious. A print such as “Images of Deauville” took Outerbridge ten hours to produce. Besides referring to the French seaside gambling resort of Deauville, this still life is a tour-de-force of modern stylistic citations. Overall, the assembled objects evoke a feeling of eeriness not unlike a sentiment associated with many surrealist works. The Machine Age and cubist-inspired ideas are referred to by the inclusion of the shiny sphere and yellow pyramid. Always an advocate of modern art principles, Outerbridge remained a prominent member of the international avant-garde from the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s.
Images of Deauville
1938
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1896 - 1958
American
Unknown
Carbro color print
Image: 17 × 13 1/4 inches (43.2 × 33.7 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund
F79.90
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Markings
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Stamped, in black ink, on sheet, verso, lower left, verso: ESTATE OF | PAUL | OUTERBRIDGE JR. | POC # [ 814 (in pencil)]
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery (New York, New York, USA)
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press. April 26, 1981, p. 16 (ill.).
Goldberg, Vicki. "Paul Outerbridge." American Photographer 4, 3 (March 1980): pp. 36-47, p. 45 (ill.).
Outerbridge, Paul. Photographing in Color. New York, 1940, p. 7 (ill.).
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Paul Outerbridge, Jr., Images of Deauville, 1938, carbro color print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, F79.90.
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