The ideal woman of the years between the wars was slim and agile, with taut skin and cropped hair. Liberated from the corsets of her ancestors, she rarely adopted their postures. When she did, as here in Parry's studio, she could be alluring but rarely voluptuous, for she lacked the generous shoulders and ample flesh of yore.
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Title:Nude
Artist:Roger Parry (French, 1905–1977)
Date:1931
Medium:Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:17.3 x 23.1 cm (6 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Classification:Photographs
Credit Line:Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:1987.1100.73
Inscription: Inscribed in negative on print, recto LL: "Pho. PARRY"; inscribed on 1st mount, verso LC: "1931 M.R.Parry 121";
(Sale, Phillips, New York, November 13, 1980, Lot #116); (Sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 1981, Lot #550, to Waddell); John C. Waddell
Printed on paper attached to mount, recto LL, LC [below print]: "mais aujourd'hui, cette // peau tendre est encore près // de nous, elle embaume, elle // appelle comme la vie elle - // même, elle attire mystérieu - // sement, ombres troublantes // de la nuque, délicatesse des // bras... // APRÉS (page 283)" -- quoted from Solal's detective novel Aprés
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 23–December 31, 1989.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 28–April 22, 1990.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 10–July 15, 1990.
High Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 5–April 28, 1991.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 8–August 4, 1991.
IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia. "The New Vision, IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia," January 20, 1995–March 26, 1995.
Hambourg, Maria Morris. The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars, Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. no. 66.
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