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A black and off-white photograph of an abstract form with brown shadows.

The photograph show a black and off-white form which rises from the center of the bottom edge and slightly curves to the left rising almost to the top edge of the picture plane. The form is made of black rectangular shapes with rounded edges and black discs. The spaces between the black shapes if off-white slightly speckled with small black and light brown. Surround the form, a thin brown layers radiates out towards the edges which are off-white with smudges of light brown.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.16.4
People
Chargesheimer, German (Cologne, Germany 1924 - 1971 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Babel, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1961
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/53369

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
  • Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Ch 1961
  • inscription: on verso at c.l., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: "BABEL"
  • 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
1991.16.4
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, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016

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