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A black and white photograph of an abstract shape.

The black and white photograph shows a large light-colored area that rises up from the bottom right corner. There are three folds in the center that rise up to the center of the form ending with a gentle dark curve. The light-colored area has swirls and faint lines. The bottom left corner is black which bleeds into the left side of the light-colored form.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1979.17
People
Lotte Jacobi, German (Thorn, West Prussia, Germany 1896 - 1990 Concord, New Hampshire)
Title
Untitled (photogram)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1946-1955
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/285081

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
actual: 13.5 x 8.5 cm (5 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lotte Jacobi
  • inscription: signature in ink; verso: used as a postcard correspondance to Helen D. Willard from Lotte Jacobi, sent, dated July 9, 1977, in ink

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Helen D. Willard
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
P1979.17
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, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

Verification Level

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