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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.37
People
Miroslav Hák, Czech (Nová Paka, Bohemia [now Czech Republic] 1911 - 1978 Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic])
Title
Untitled
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1935
Places
Creation Place: Europe
Culture
Czech
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/57767

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 28.1 x 22.6 cm (11 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink on recto, b.r.: M. Hák
  • inscription: recto, b.r., black ink, in artist's hand: Vadoviz 4/I 1935. // venuje M. Hák [Vadoviz 4/1 1935. // dedicated by M. Hák]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ladislav Zivr, Czech Republic, 1935, sold, 1995.
Unidentified Collector, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, purchase, 1995, sold at auction, 1999.
Czech Center of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic, purchased at auction, 1999, sold, 2002. Jirí Jaskmanicky, Director
Deborah Bell Photographs and Stephen Daiter Gallery, New York, NY, purchase, 2002, sold, 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Rendl Fund for Slavic Art and Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.37
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Prague, 1900-1938: capitale secrete des avant-gardes, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Dijon, France, 1997), p. 292, no. 322 (variant cropping)
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 90

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1500 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Expressionism-Interwar), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/10/2016 - 01/25/2016

Verification Level

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