Still Life: Shell and Eye
1948, printed 1955
Artist, Czech, 1896 - 1976
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Brenda and Robert Edelson Collection)
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Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 29.53 cm (9 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
sheet: 29.85 × 40 cm (11 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4591
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Brenda and Robert Edelson Collection, Baltimore, MD; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1997; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2007
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 17 – July 29, 2007
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right below image in black ink: Sudek / 55; on verso, upper center in graphite: Z cyklu / vzpomínky / 1948-64; by unknown hand, top left: c17; top center left: P8; bottom left: SG/752/Y; bottom center left: 12; bottom center circled: 29; bottom right: 19-36
Wikidata ID
Q64156083