Front / Recto
- Title Untitled
- Negative Date 1930
- Print Date 1930–55
- Medium Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions Image 9 1/16 × 6 5/8" (23 × 16.9 cm)Mount 12 3/16 x 9 3/8" (31 x 23.8 cm)
- Place Taken Paris
- Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther
- MoMA Accession Number 1803.2001
Back / Verso
- Mount Type Mount
- Marks and Inscriptions Signed in black ink on mount recto, bottom right: R. Parry. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, bottom right: TW 871203.
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Provenance
The artist; by inheritance to the artist’s wife, Madeleine Parry [1]; to Nicholas Callaway, 1980–81 [2]; to Jill Quasha, New York, 1981 [3]; purchased by Thomas Walther, December 19, 1987 [4]; given to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
[1] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 10.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.; and Jill Quasha, telephone conversation with Maria Morris Hambourg, September 16, 2013.
[4] Jill Quasha invoice no. 452, December 19, 1987, annotated with Thomas Walther archival no. TW 871203; and Walther archival no. TW 871203 on mount verso.
Surface
- Surface Sheen Semireflective
- Techniques Mount Retouching (additive) Contact print
- PTM
- Micro-raking
Paper Material
- Format Metric
- 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, Zn, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
- Mount: Al, S, K, Ca, Ti, Fe, Zn, 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).
In Context
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