Handsplay, Paris

Lucien Hervé · 1950

This is Handsplay, Paris — a photograph by Lucien Hervé, nineteen fifty. The piece is gelatin silver print, about 11 by 10 centimeters. It is among the smallest things here — you could close a hand around it.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 4 7/16 × 4" (11.2 × 10.2 cm) · Credit Gift of agnès b.

Hanging beside it in Gallery 409: Willard's Foot

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Lovers, Untitled, Self-Portrait with Palette, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, Le Voyageur (The Traveler), New York