Stairway to the Cathedral (Subida a la catedral)

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Kati Horna

Associated Names
Kati Horna

Artist, Mexican, born Austria-Hungary, 1912 - 2000

The image depicts a stone wall with barred windows and stairs in the foreground. The wall has two small barred windows. The lighting creates shadows on the wall and stairs. The stone bricks show texture, and the stairs lead the eye upward. The setting has a quiet, possibly historical or aged ambiance with ruggedness and contrasting light and shadow.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.13 × 17.94 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.90.1

  • Copyright

    © Ana María Norah Horna Fernandez. All Rights Reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • The New Woman Behind the Camera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022, no. 141.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, upper center in graphite: Kati Horna / Mexico

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