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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.134
People
Jindrich Styrsky, Czech (Cermna by Kysperk, Bohemia [now Letohrad, Czech Republic] 1899 - 1942 Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]))
Title
Untitled
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1934-1935
Culture
Czech
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/143166

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted to card
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 9.1 x 8.7 cm (3 9/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
sheet: 9.4 x 8.9 cm (3 11/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
mount: 15.5 x 10.6 cm (6 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite on mount at l.r.: Styrsky

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Toyen (Marie Cerminova), Prague, Czech Republic, inheritance, 1942, gift, 1978. The artist Toyen was Styrsky's companion and collaborator from 1922 until his death in 1942 at which time she inherited his work. She later (sometime between the mid-1960s to the late 1970s) gave a large group of Styrsky material to close friends in Paris from whom this work was acquired by Ubu Gallery in 1994. (Adam Boxer, Ubu Gallery, 9/10/02)
Private Collector, Paris, France, gift, 1978, sale, 1994.
Ubu Gallery, New York, New York, USA, purchase, 1994, sale, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, American Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund and Rendl Fund for Slavic Art
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.134
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jindrich Heisler and Jindrich Styrsky, Na jehlach techto dni (On the Needles of These Days), Fr. Borovy (Prague, 1945), p. 21
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 91

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