[Still-Life Abstraction]

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Artist Jaromír Funke (Czech, 1896–1945)Czech, 1896–1945

CultureCzech

Titles

[Still-Life Abstraction]

Datec. 1923

PlaceCzechoslovakia

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (23.2 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (23.2 × 29.2 cm)
Mount: 19 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (49.5 × 44.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

Object number91.637

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Photography

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Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

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PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThis still life of a sheet of glass, a mirror, and a half-filled water glass, all strongly lit from one side, is characteristic of the Czech artist’s signature style of making a photograph of complex space, created with a mirror, an object, and light. Although softly printed like Pictorialist photographs from earlier in the century, Funke’s photograph shares the abstract complexity of the most advanced modernist experiments that were just then emerging, works such as photograms by Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy.
Provenance[Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco]; The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, February 4, 1987; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 16–March 27, 1994.
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