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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.453.12
People
Hugo Táborský, Czech (Brno, Czech Republic 1911 - 1991 Brno, Czech Republic)
Title
Coffee Beans
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Reconstructing the Original: Czech Abstractions 1922-1935
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c.1934, printed 1994
Culture
Czech
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/338178

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 12.9 x 18 cm (5 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 13.6 x 18.6 cm (5 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
mat: 28.575 x 33.02 cm (11 1/4 x 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: On verso, in graphite: 12. [over] Frantisek Taborsky [over] Coffee Beans, c. 1934 [over] Jaroslav Andel Slinore-Taborska(?) Gary Schneider 1994

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of Hugo Táborský, 1994, to; [Gary Schneider and John Erdman, New York] (1994-2011), gift/sale; to Harvard Art Museums, 2011. Note: Printed in collaboration with the artist or the artist's estate and retained by Schneider/Erdman per agreement.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Schneider/Erdman Printer's Proof Collection, partial gift, and partial purchase through the Margaret Fisher Fund
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.453.12
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jennifer Quick, ed., Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 84-85, fig. 13, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Analog Culture

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Verification Level

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