1991.16.7: Rapporte, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
PhotographsThe photograph shows an abstract form in the center. The form starts near the upper edge on the left side as a roughly shaped off-white oval which extends down and narrows before widening out and curving up to the right, becoming narrow and then widening to a roughly shaped oval. The center of the form is filled with a mottled brown area intersected with black lines that extend down. The background is areas of gray with light black dots. Roughly shaped areas of off-white are in the top and bottom of the right side.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.16.7
- People
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Chargesheimer, German (Cologne, Germany 1924 - 1971 Cologne, Germany)
- Title
- Rapporte, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1961
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/53368
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 39.8 x 29.9 cm (15 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in black ink at l.l.: Ch 61
- inscription: on verso at l.c., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Rapporte
- inscription: on verso at l.l., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1.
- inscription: on verso at l.r., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Chargesheimer
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.16.7
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2016 - 04/06/2017
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