Untitled [Exploding Hand]
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Image Details
| Title | Untitled [Exploding Hand] |
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| Artist | Lee Miller |
| Year | Circa 1931 |
| Location | Guerlain Parfumarie |
| Town/City | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Format | Vintage |
| Description | A woman's hand appears to have exploded in a cloud of smoke. But look closer and the 'smoke' is revealed to be scratches on the glass door from the diamond rings of the parfumerie's customers. The curator Mark Haworth-Booth believes that with this image, Lee achieved 'the 'convulsive beauty' identified by André Breton as the hallmark of surrealist art'. |