Maurice Le Garrec, publisher
French, 1881–1937
Forty Clichés-verre (Quarante Clichés-Glace)
1921
Portfolio of clichés-verre, gelatin printing out prints
19 × 15 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.
Clark Art Institute
Acquired by the Clark, 2020
2020.2
FEBRUARY 13–MAY 16, 2021
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Quarante Clichés-Glace
The prints in this exhibition belong to Forty Clichés-verre (Quarante Clichés-Glace), a portfolio released in 1921 by the dealer and publisher Maurice Le Garrec (1881–1937). Le Garrec had acquired a collection of nineteenth-century cliché-verre negatives amassed by Adalbert Cuvelier (1812–1871) and his son Eugène (1837–1900), who was one of the most energetic promoters of the cliché-verre process. Le Garrec had forty of those negatives reprinted on modern photographic paper and published the prints in an edition of 150 portfolios. He also produced a special edition of five portfolios comprising two variant printings of each negative, for a total of eighty prints. The Clark’s portfolio is from that special edition. Eight pairings of variant prints are included in this exhibition to demonstrate the range of expressive potential in printing a cliché-verre