Front / Recto

  • Title Untitled
  • Negative Date 1931
  • Print Date 1931
  • Medium Gelatin silver prints mounted on cardboard
  • Dimensions Image 9 7/16 × 7 13/16" (24 × 19.9 cm)
    Mount 9 9/16 × 7 15/16" (24.3 × 20.1 cm)
  • Place Taken Paris
  • Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Shirley C. Burden, by exchange
  • MoMA Accession Number 1876.2001

Back / Verso

  • Mount Type Mount (original)
  • Marks and Inscriptions Signed in pencil on mount recto, bottom left: tabard 31-. Stamped in black ink on mount verso, center: PHOTO/Maurice TABARD/PARIS. Inscribed in green ink on mount verso, center: 1931. Inscribed in pencil and incised on mount verso: [cartoon sketches].
  • Provenance The artist, Paris; to Galerie Wilde (Ann and Jürgen Wilde), Cologne, 1975 [1]; puchased by Thomas Walther, 1984 [2]; purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
    [1] MacGill/Walther 2001(3), p. 23; and Jürgen Wilde, letter to Simon Bieling, May 12, 2005.
    [2] MacGill/Walther 2001(3), p. 23; and Wilde, letter to to Bieling.

Surface

  • Surface Sheen Semireflective
  • Techniques Mount
    Retouching (additive)
    Contact print
    Retouching (reductive)
    Collage
  • 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
    Raking-light close-up image, as shot. The surface area of the sample measures 1 x 1.35 cm.
    Raking-light close-up image, processed. Processing included removal of color, equalization of the histogram, and sharpening, all designed to enhance visual comparison. The image is cropped to 1024 x 1024 pixels and depicts a surface area of 6.7 x 6.7 mm.

Paper Material

  • Format Unknown
  • UV Fluorescence Recto negative
    Verso no data
  • Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
  • 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: Al, P, S, Ca, Cr, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
    • Mount: P, S, Ca, Fe, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ba, Pb

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

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