BR49.721: Exercise in Advancing and Receding Values
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR49.721
- People
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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Australian (Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1893 - 1965 Sydney, Australia)
- Title
- Exercise in Advancing and Receding Values
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1922-1923
- Period
- Modern
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225130
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Collage of opaque watercolor painted ovals and painted strips on black wove paper
- Dimensions
- 66.9 × 50 cm (26 5/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: recto, l.l., red watercolor: Mack
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label: recto, l.r., typewritten in black ink: Experiments for advancing or receding and the variation of coloyr tone. / The forms themselves are identifcal in size and in shade colour.
recto, l.r., pencil: FOR 5 -
exhibition label: verso, l.r., black ink: Museum of Modern Art / LOAN / A.38. 1638 / Bayer
[struck through in pencil with BRM number added]
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
- Copyright
- © Kaj Delugan
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- BR49.721
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), p. 238, plate 4, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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