Untitled

1930

Piet Zwart

Associated Names
Piet Zwart

Artist, Dutch, 1885 - 1977

This is a photograph of industrial equipment featuring a large spool and assorted wires. The central focus is a massive wooden spool that is wrapped with a thick cable, occupying almost the entire left side of the image. In front of the spool, there is a thick wooden or metal post holding a bunch of exposed wires that splay outward in various directions. The scene is set in an industrial or workshop environment, visible through the surrounding machinery and equipment. The lighting and shadows highlight the textures of the wood and metal, and the photograph is in black and white.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Piet Zwart, Wassenaar, Netherlands. Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Barbara Leibowits Graphics, New York), 1984; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 17 – July 29, 2007

Bibliography

2007

  • Brookman, Philip, Paul Greenhalgh, and Sarah Newman. Essential Modernism. London/Washington, DC, 2007: 62.

Inscriptions

on verso, upper center stamped twice in green ink: piet zwart rijksstraatweg 290 / wassenaar holland; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 326; lower right: z258; bottom left: BG 375; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in red pencil: 1984.23.11

Wikidata ID

Q64158832

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