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Artists›Maurice Tabard

Maurice Tabard

French, 1897–1984

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PhotographySurrealism

Representation

None documented

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90%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ3143070

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Photography 1839�1937

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1937

Field Verification (4 fields)

4 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyWikipedia + Ai Generated· 88%✓
Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityDuplicate Merge + Artsy· 85%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5769
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Surrealism

Medium

Photography

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (34)

Untitled

1937 · Gelatin silver print

9 3/8 × 7 1/16" (23.8 × 18 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Self-Portrait with Roger Parry)

1936 · Gelatin silver print

9 1/4 × 6 5/8" (23.5 × 16.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Test for the Film "Culte Vaudou," Exposition 1937

1936 · Gelatin silver print with cellophane sheet

11 9/16 × 9 1/16" (29.3 × 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Solarized Film from "Culte Vaudou," 1937,

1936 · Gelatin silver print

9 1/2 × 4 3/4" (24.1 × 12 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1936 · Gelatin silver print

11 1/2 × 9 1/4" (29.2 × 23.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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[Abstraction of Woman and Two Round Tables]

1936 · Gelatin silver print

23.2 x 14.5 cm (9 1/8 x 5 11/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Statue and Trees

1935 · gelatin silver print, solarized

Image: 11.2 x 9.8 cm (4 7/16 x 3 7/8 in.); Mounted: 16 x 12.1 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Paper: 11.2 x 9.8 cm (4 7/16 x 3 7/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled

1932 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.3 × 16.7 cm (8 13/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Mount: 32.3 × 24.6 cm (12 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1931 · Gelatin silver prints mounted on cardboard

9 7/16 × 7 13/16" (24 × 19.9 cm) (irreg.)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1931 · Gelatin silver print

8 15/16 × 6 3/4" (22.8 × 17.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1931 · Gelatin silver print

6 7/8 × 9 1/4" (17.4 × 23.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mac Orlan, Oeuvres Poetiques

1930 · Gelatin silver print

9 1/8 × 6 7/8" (23.2 × 17.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1930 · Gelatin silver print

8 13/16 × 6 5/8" (22.3 × 16.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Révélateur Tachiste

1930 · Gelatin silver print

9 1/4 × 6 7/8" (23.7 × 17.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Etudes de Formes

1930 · Gelatin silver print

21.8 x 16.5 cm (8 9/16 x 6 1/2 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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[Room with Eye]

1930 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 15.8 x 21.6 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.) Frame: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Still Life with My Shoe

1929 · Gelatin silver print

22.8 × 16.6 cm (9 × 6 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hand

1929 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.9 × 16.5 cm (9 1/16 × 6 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1929 · Gelatin silver print

21.6 × 15.2 cm (8 9/16 × 6 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1929 · Gelatin silver print

9 5/16 × 6 7/8" (23.7 × 17.5 cm) (irreg.)

Museum of Modern Art

Am I Beautiful?

1929 · Gelatin silver print

9 5/16 × 6 15/16" (23.6 × 17.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Dancer Pomiès

1929 · Gelatin silver print

9 7/16 × 7 1/16" (24 × 17.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1929 · Gelatin silver print

6 3/4 × 9 1/16" (17.1 × 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1929 · Gelatin silver print

6 9/16 × 6 1/2" (16.7 × 16.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

34 published of 52 catalogued · 41 with image

MoMA
18 publishedof 36 catalogued36 img
The Met
7 published
Art Institute Chicago
5 published5 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
4 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources

Dancer George Pomiès
1929 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled (Man and Railroad Tracks)
1920 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Portrait of Roger Parry
1925 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Statue and Trees
1935 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Artsy

Relationships

Movements1

Surrealism

Collections5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Phillips

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Phillips

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Photography 1839�1937

New York · 1937