Images of Deauville

1938

Paul Outerbridge, Jr. American, 1896 - 1958

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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.

Title Images of Deauville

Artwork Date 1938

Artist ----------

Life Dates 1896 - 1958

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Carbro color print

Dimensions Image: 17 × 13 1/4 inches (43.2 × 33.7 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F79.90

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Marks 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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Published References

Outerbridge, Paul. Photographing in Color. New York, 1940, p. 7 (ill.).

Goldberg, Vicki. "Paul Outerbridge." American Photographer 4, no. 3 (March 1980): pp. 36-47; p. 45 (ill.).

"Family Art Game." Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1981, p. 16 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Paul Outerbridge, Jr., Images of Deauville, 1938, carbro color print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, F79.90.