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[Seated Woman]

1965–75
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
Born in The Hague, Gerard Petrus Fieret was interned in a German hard labor camp during World War II. A decade later, he became a painter, mostly of portraits in gouache and charcoal; in 1956 he began making photographs. Fieret was a loner who lived a turbulent and paranoid existence, believing other artists were stealing his ideas and copying his style. To protect his work, he branded the surfaces of his prints with his name and address using a rubber stamp and, at times, with large flourishing ink signatures. This obsessive marking added unconventional meaning to the work—a kind of authorial pathos doused with eroticism.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Seated Woman]
  • Artist: Gerard Petrus Fieret (Dutch, 1924–2009)
  • Date: 1965–75
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 19 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (49.5 × 40 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs