Untitled
1925 · Gelatin silver print
28.2 × 22.3 cm (11 1/8 × 8 13/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Jacques-André Boiffard
Artist
WA-00031960
PhotographySurrealismPhotography
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3
Works in Collection
5
Assets Indexed
1
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- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Jacques-André Boiffard was a French photographer and filmmaker active from the 1920s through the postwar period. He worked across documentary, experimental, and surrealist modes, collaborating with key figures in the avant-garde and producing images that ranged from intimate portraiture to architectural and bodily studies. His practice bridged photography's early modernist experiments with postwar reassessment of the medium's documentary and aesthetic capacities.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago
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Surrealism
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Photography
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Artworks (3)
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3 published of 3 catalogued · 2 with image
- Art Institute Chicago2 published2 img
- MoMA1 published
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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