Untitled

Front / Recto

• Title Untitled
• Negative Date c. 1930
• Print Date 1960–70
• Medium Gelatin silver print
• Dimensions Image 7 3/16 × 8 7/8" (18.2 × 22.6 cm)
  
• Place Taken Slawno
• Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Horace W. Goldsmith Fund through Robert B. Menschel
• MoMA Accession Number 1689.2001
• Copyright © 2015 Raoul Hausmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Back / Verso

• Mount Type No mount - evidence previous mount
• Marks and Inscriptions Inscribed in blue ink on sheet verso, top left: environ 1930 [underlined]/Pomérania. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, top center: 5 [circled]. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, center: ←190 m/m →. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom right: TW 861003. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom right: RH 3979-C.
• Provenance The artist. Probably Cornelia Frenkel, Freiburg, Germany [1]; purchased by Thomas Walther, possibly October 1986 [2]; purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
  [1] MacGill/Walther 2001(3), p. 8.
  [2] Ibid.; and Thomas Walther archival no. TW 861003 on sheet verso.

Surface

• Surface Sheen Glossy
• Techniques Ferrotyping
  Enlargement via lateral projection
  
• PTM
  

  View of the recto of the artwork made using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) software, which exaggerates subtle surface details and renders the features of the artwork plainly visible. Department of Conservation, MoMA
• Micro-raking
  

  Raking-light close-up image, as shot. Area of detail is 6.7 x 6.7 mm. Department of Conservation, MoMA

  

  Raking-light close-up image, processed. Processing included removal of color, equalization of the histogram, and sharpening, all designed to enhance visual comparison. Department of Conservation, MoMA

Paper Material

• Format Metric
• Weight Single weight
• Thickness (mm) 0.17
• UV Fluorescence Recto positive
  Verso positive
• Fiber Analysis Softwood bleached sulfite 77%
  Hardwood bleached sulfite 23%
  
• Material Techniques Developing-out paper
  
• XRF

  This work was determined to be a gelatin silver print via X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.

  The following elements have been positively identified in the work, through XRF readings taken from its recto and verso (or from the mount, where the verso was not accessible):

  • Recto: P, S, Ca, Zn, Sr, Ag, Ba
  • Verso: Al, P, S, Ca, Zn, Sr, Ba

  The graphs below show XRF spectra for three areas on the print: two of the recto—from areas of maximum and minimum image density (Dmax and Dmin)—and one of the verso or mount. The background spectrum represents the contribution of the XRF instrument itself. The first graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the lower energy range (0 to 8 keV). The second graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the higher energy range (8 to 40 keV).

  

  Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
  Elements identified: Al, P, S, Ca, Ag, Ba

  

  Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
  Elements identified: Zn, Sr, Ag

In Context

Related People

• Artist

  • Raoul Hausmann