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Four large hand painted black shapes on a white background.

Four similar shapes appear hovering one over another in a stack with a thin border left at all four edges of the paper. Each shape is a variation on a silhouette of a vase lain on its side. From left and right, triangles taper in toward each other and meet in a bulging middle shape. They are painted with deliberately jagged contours in heavy black ink.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR61.47
People
Xanti Schawinsky, Swiss (Basel, Switzerland 1904 - 1979 Locarno, Switzerland)
Title
Morphocomedy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1953
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223047

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
57.8 x 39.4 cm (22 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lydia Dorner in memory of Dr. Alexander Dorner
Copyright
© The Xanti Schawinsky Estate
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
BR61.47
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/07/2015 - 09/16/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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