Nude Study 13

Front / Recto

Mount Type No mount
Marks and Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, top center: 32965. Stamped in blue ink on sheet verso, center: COPYRIGHT [inscribed in red pen: 32965]/STONE/BRUXELLES/18, RUE DE NAPLES/TÉLÉPHONE 12.32.14/REPRODUCTION SANS/MENTION INTERDITE/WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/REPRODUKTION NUR/MITNAMENSNENNUNG.
Provenance The artist, Brussels. Stefan Lennart, Munich [1]; purchased by Allan Frumkin Gallery Photographs Inc. (Carol Ehlers), Chicago, 1988 [2]; purchased by Thomas Walther, March 1988 [3]; given to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
[1] Carol Ehlers, letter to Audrey Sands, October 18, 2013.
[2] MacGill/Walther 2000, p. 36; and Ehlers, letter to Sands.
[3] Ehlers, letter to Sands; Carol Ehlers Photographs Inc. invoice, March 8, 1988, annotated with Thomas Walther archival no. TW 88-3-2. Although the sale was made through Ehlers’s gallery, the payment was made to Allan Frumkin Gallery Photographs Inc.

Surface Sheen Matte
Techniques Retouching (additive)
Enlargement
Retouching in negative
Retouching (reductive)
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

Format Metric
Weight Double weight
Thickness (mm) 0.36
UV Fluorescence Recto negative
Verso negative
Fiber Analysis Softwood bleached sulfite 73%
Softwood bleached sulfite 2%
Rag 12%
Bast 12%
Grass 1%
Material Techniques Developing-out paper
Baryta-less 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, Si, P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Cr, Fe, Zn, Ag, Ba, Pb
- Verso: Al, Si, P, S, K, Ca, Cr, Fe, Zn, 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, Si, P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Cr, Ag, Ba

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

Stone, Cami, and Sasha Stone. 25 nus femmes de Sasha Stone, pl. 13. Brussels: Édition internationale, 1933.

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Deuxième Exposition internationale de la photographie et du cinema. 1933.

Maison d’art, Brussels. Nus. Exhibition of work by Cami and Sasha Stone. 1933.