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A black and white waist length portrait of a nude woman, seated.

The black and white photograph is a waist length photograph of a nude woman seated. She has short dark hair; her face is seen in profile from the right. Her right arm is bent at the elbow, her lightly clenched fist rests on her leg on the right side of the image. Her left arm is raised across her breast, her hand rest lightly on her shoulder. The view can see her left breast through the forearm. A third arm crosses her stomach, the hand rests on her right arm. Through the third arm the view can see her stomach.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.369
People
Bill Brandt, British (Hamburg, Germany 1904 - 1983 London, England)
Title
Untitled (nude, Campden Hill?)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1956
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303753

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34.5 x 29.5 cm (13 9/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: recto, b.r. below image in black ink: Bill Brandt
  • inscription: recto, b.r. below image, black ink: Bill Brandt

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1980 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Copyright
© Estate of Bill Brandt
Object Number
P1982.369
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Exhibition History

  • Recent Acquisitions: Photographs, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/16/1983 - 10/23/1983
  • Chasing Shadows, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/1995 - 04/02/1995
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/18/2018 - 04/18/2019

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