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Professor Jean Bernard, Académie Française, Paris
1989 · gelatin silver print
Image: 31 x 45.2 cm (12 3/16 x 17 13/16 in.); Paper: 39.3 x 50.6 cm (15 1/2 x 19 15/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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William Klein
American-French, 1928
WA-00027922
New York, NY, USA
PhotographyPop ArtPhotography
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
77
Works in Collection
136
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
View all exhibitions →No image
William Klein
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980–1981
No image
Reinstallation of the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
No image
Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
No image
The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
Field Verification (4 fields)
3 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
- LocationMoMA· 93%✓
- NationalityMoMA· 93%✓
- BiographyMoMA· 93%
Source Registry (2)
- Christies-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
No biography available for William Klein yet.
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Pop Art
Medium
Photography
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (77)
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Artwork sources (6)
77 published of 133 catalogued · 36 with image
- MoMA56 publishedof 112 catalogued28 img
- The Met7 published
- Art Institute Chicago6 published6 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art5 published
- Rijksmuseum2 published2 img
- Whitney1 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)
7 entries · 1 sources
- 1961 · Rijksmuseum · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1954 · Rijksmuseum · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1989 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1989 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1959 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1963 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1956 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record
Images
Relationships
10Institutional
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
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
In collection
Rijksmuseum
Market
Auction sale history
Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction
Market
Auction History
Range: $6,930 – $63,000
| Work | Auction House | Date | Estimate | Hammer Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christie's | Apr 2026 | $10,000 – $15,000 | $25,400 | |
| Christie's | Sep 2025 | $10,000 – $15,000 | $10,160 | |
| Christie's | Apr 2025 | $5,000 – $7,000 | $6,930 | |
| Christie's | Feb 2024 | $30,000 – $50,000 | $63,000 | |
| Christie's | Feb 2024 | $10,000 – $15,000 | $9,450 | |
| Christie's | Oct 2023 | €8,000 – €12,000 | €16,380 | |
| Christie's | May 2023 | €12,000 – €18,000 | €17,640 | |
| Christie's | Mar 2023 | $9,000 – $12,000 | $16,380 | |
| Christie's | Oct 2022 | €6,000 – €8,000 | €16,380 | |
| Christie's | Oct 2022 | €10,000 – €15,000 | €27,720 |
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