Front / Recto
- Title Jean Cocteau
- Negative Date 1929
- Print Date 1929–55
- Medium Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions Image 8 3/4 × 6 1/2" (22.3 × 16.5 cm)Mount 13 × 10 3/16" (33 × 25.8 cm)
- Place Taken Paris
- Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther
- MoMA Accession Number 1753.2001
- Copyright © Estate Germaine Krull, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Back / Verso
- Mount Type Mount (original)
- Marks and Inscriptions Signed in pencil on mount recto, bottom right: G Krull.
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Provenance
The artist, Paris. Private collection, Paris [1]; to Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York [2]; purchased by Thomas Walther, June 1990 [3]; given to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
[1] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 8; and Edwynn Houk, conversation with Simon Bieling, New York, March 30, 2005.
[2] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 8; and Houk, conversation with Bieling.
[3] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 8; and Edwynn Houk Gallery invoice no. 4990, June 28, 1990.
Surface
- Surface Sheen Matte
- Techniques Mount Enlargement
- PTM
- Micro-raking
Paper Material
- Format Unknown
- UV Fluorescence Recto negative Verso no data
- Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
- 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):
- Recto: P, S, Ca, Fe, Zn, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
- Mount: Al, Si, K, Ca, Fe, Zn, 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).
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