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Nude Dressing
1953 · Gelatin silver print
11 1/2 × 7 1/2" (29.9 × 19.0 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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René Groebli
Artist
WA-00027404
PhotographyPhotography
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
1
Works in Collection
5
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
No image
The Family of Man
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
René Groebli is a Swiss photographer known for his experimental approach to light and form in the immediate postwar period. Working primarily in black and white, he developed a distinctive visual language that combined documentary observation with abstract geometric composition, often exploring the interplay of shadow and architectural space. His work emerged from the Swiss modernist photography movement of the 1940s and 1950s.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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- MoMA1 publishedof 2 catalogued
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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