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Closeup in black and white of large and small droplets on a metal surface

We are looking close up at a smooth surface dotted with randomly spaced drops of liquid, with a continuous mist of fine droplets around and in between them. At lower right one drop is several times larger than the other drops and is mostly reflecting a dark shadow. At the top left of this drop we see the curved reflection of the crossbars of a window, distorted to bend around the outer edge. In the other, smaller drops, we see a more straight on view of this reflected cross shape, and in some drops a low building can be seen in the distance through the window.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.24
People
Peter Keetman, German (Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany 1916 - 2005 Marquartstein, Germany)
Title
Oil Drops
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Öltropfen
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1956, printed later
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221235

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 30.2 x 23.3 cm (11 7/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: signed, stamped and titled on verso

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry
Copyright
© Estate of Peter Keetman
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.24
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/12/2017 - 04/12/2018

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