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A composite artwork comprised of six post-card size, black and white photographs and a brown paper bag.

A composite artwork comprised of six post-card size, black and white photographs and a brown paper bag. The first photograph depicts the lower half of a woman's face, in front of which she holds a piece of white bread. The two photographs underneath depict bread with the catographic shape of Latin America and Brazil hollowed out from the center, both in portrait orientation. There are three photographs in a column on the right handside, all in landscape orientation. The top photograph depicts the two pieces of bread with the cut-outs in a bread basket. The middle photograph depicts the breadbasket, with no bread, but the outline of Latin American and Brazil were previously the bread with the cut-outs had been. The final photograph depicts the two pieces of bread, with the cut-outs, side by side. The brown paper-bag on the left has black, printed writing on the lower half, which reads O Pᾶo Nosso / de cada dia / ANNA BELLA GEIGER.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1998.45
People
Anna Bella Geiger, Brazilian (Rio de Janeiro born 1933)
Title
A Pão Nosso de Cada Dia (Our Daily Bread)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1978
Places
Creation Place: South America, Brazil
Culture
Brazilian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194833

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Six gelatin silver prints and silkscreen on paper bread bag
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
64 × 40 cm (25 3/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
each image: 11.8 × 18 cm (4 5/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: 2/5 Anna Bella Geiger 1978
  • stamp: verso of the mount, lower left, center, and right, green ink, stamp: 01

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, from the artist, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
2/5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Davis Pratt Fund
Copyright
© Anna Bella Geiger
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
P1998.45
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
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/2016 - 10/13/2016

Verification Level

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