Front / Recto
- Title Untitled
- Negative Date 1930
- Print Date 1930–39
- Medium Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions Image 9 7/16 × 7 1/16" (23.9 × 17.9 cm)
- Place Taken Paris
- Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of David H. McAlpin, by exchange
- MoMA Accession Number 1747.2001
- Copyright © Estate Germaine Krull, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Back / Verso
- Mount Type No mount
- Marks and Inscriptions Stamped in black ink on sheet verso, center: COPYRIGHT BY/Germaine KRULL/PARIS [with square outline]. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom right: TW 810501. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom right: KI.
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Provenance
The artist, Paris. Sold through Phillips New York (lot 3), November 13, 1980 [1]; to Allan Frumkin Gallery Photographs Inc. (Carol Ehlers), Chicago [2]; purchased by Thomas Walther, May 9, 1981 [3]; purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
[1] Carol Ehlers, e-mail to Simon Bieling, April 19, 2005.
[2] MacGill/Walther 2000, p. 20.
[3] Thomas Walther archival no. TW 810501 on sheet verso ; MacGill/Walther 2000(2), p. 18; Ehlers, letter to Audrey Sands, October 18, 2013; and Allan Frumkin Gallery Photographs Inc. invoice, May 9, 1981.
Surface
- Surface Sheen Semireflective
- Techniques Retouching (additive) Retouching in negative
- PTM
- Micro-raking
Paper Material
- Format Metric
- Weight Double weight
- Thickness (mm) 0.30
- UV Fluorescence Recto negative Verso negative
- Fiber Analysis Softwood bleached sulfite 99% Hardwood bleached sulfite 1%
- Material Techniques Developing-out paper
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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):
- Verso: P, S, Ca, Zn, Sr, Ag, Ba
- Mount: 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).
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