A black and white photograph of a figure carved in stone.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph shows a simplified face, carved into the center of a flat stone surface. The face has round eyes, an inverted Y-shape runs down from between the eyes to just above the round nose with two roughly shaped holes. A long gash in the stone runs from below the nose to outside the carved-out area. Above the face are roughly broken lines radiating out and up to the top the image. The flat surface of the stone is heavily scored with fine crisscrossed lines.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P2000.32
People
Brassaï, French (Brassó, Hungary (now Romania) 1899 - 1984 Èze, France)
Title
Untitled (graffiti)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Graffiti
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1933
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/186831

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 23.5 x 18 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: verso, center, purple ink: [artist's stamp]
  • inscription: verso, center, blue ink: A. 1592
  • inscription: verso, lower right, blue ink: P 115 [circled in black ink and crossed out in blue ink]
    P. 107
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: PF30334

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York, by exchange to the Harvard University Art Museum, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn, by exchange
Copyright
© Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
P2000.32
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/13/2016 - 10/05/2016

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