Jan Lauschmann
Light and Shadow

ArtistCzech, 1901–1991
CultureCzech
Titles
  • Light and Shadow
Date1923
PlacePrague, Czech Republic
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 15/16 × 7 9/16 in. (27.8 × 19.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 7 9/16 in. (27.8 × 19.2 cm)
Mount: 17 3/16 × 13 3/16 in. (43.7 × 33.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1514
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited in, "Prague and It's Environs: Photographs by Josef Sudek and the Czech Avant Garde in the Manfred Heiting Collection," at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from July 7 to November 30, 2003.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black, verso of mount: "Licht in Schatten 1924 / [signature] / Brno, [indecipherable]"
Label, printed in red, verso of mount, lower right; "43731"
The photograph is signed and dated in pencil, recto of mount, beneath lower right of image/sheet, and again on the verso of the mount, in black.

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