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A black and white photograph showing the shadows cast by a woven cane seat.

The black and white photographs shows, at the top, a portion of a caned chair and the shadows cast by a woven cane seat. In the lower foreground and the center are crisscrossed blurry white lines intersected by thick black lines to form geometric shapes.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.185
People
Raoul Hausmann, German (Vienna, Austria 1886 - 1971 Limoges, France)
Title
Chair Shadows #3
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Stuhlschatten #3
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1931, printed later
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/359308

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
24.1 × 18.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Removed from backing board: Espace d'Art Contemporain Fernet-Branca / 2 rue du Ballon - 68300 Saint-Louis / Alsace - France / 15/01/2012 - 01/07/2012 / chasse-croise | Raoul HAUSMANN / Dada - Surrealiste | Stuhlsshatten, 1932 / 1916-1969 | Photogramme 24 x 18 cm
  • label: Removed from backing board: Artrans Axal / 03 89 21 66 23 / Exposition Casse Croise - Musee Fernet Branca / Salle d'exposition: salle 8BIS
  • label: Removed from backing board: Raoul HAUSMANN / Stuhlsshatten (ombre d'une chaise), 1932 / Photogramme / 24 x 18 cm / signe, titre, date avec la mention "No 3" au dos / [provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography included] / GH galerie thessa herold - Paris
  • inscription: On verso, in brown ink: Copyright by Raoul Hausmann / 1932 Stuhlschatten / No. 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco], sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museums, 2017.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Copyright
© Raoul Hausmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.185
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Andreas Haus, Raoul Hausmann: Kamerafotografien 1927-1957, Schirmer Mosel (Munich, Germany, 1979), p. 29, fig. 28 (upper right of montage); pl. 38
  • Edouard Jaguer, Les mystères de la chambre noire : le surréalisme et la photographie, Flammarion (Paris, 1982), p. 52, ill.
  • Raoul Hausmann, exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne (Saint-Etienne, France, 1994), p. 193, Cat. no. 205, ill.
  • Georges Sebbag, Memorabilia: constellations inaperçues: Dada & surréalisme, 1916-1970, Cercle d'Art (Paris, France, 2010), p. 315
  • Giovanni Lista, Chassé-croisé: Dada-Surréaliste, 1916-1969, Ligeia, Éditions de Saint-Louis (Paris, France, 2012), Vol. 25, 113-116, p. 141, p. 141, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Raoul Hausmann, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne, 05/10/1994 - 07/17/1994; Musée départemental de Rochechouart, 11/15/1994 - 12/30/1994
  • Chassé-croisé, Dada-Surréaliste, 1916-1969, Espace d'Art Contemporain Fernet-Branca, 01/15/2012 - 07/01/2012
  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/11/2019 - 06/03/2021

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