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Pencil

Pencil

Artist Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba, 1948)
Date2000
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 22 3/8 × 18 1/16 inches (56.83 × 45.88 cm)
Sheet: 23 7/8 × 20 1/16 inches (60.64 × 50.96 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2816
SignedOn sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "ABELARDO MORELL"
InscribedOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "PENCIL, 2000 / #12/30"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 12/30
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DescriptionImage of a pencil with a dark shadow cast to its left.Gallery Label
Abelardo Morell has always been fascinated by photography’s capacity to transform everyday objects and spaces through simple manipulations of light, scale, vantage point and perspective. In this image, Morell turns a simple shadow cast by a pencil into a monumental form, far more intriguing and mysterious than it would otherwise appear to the human eye.
Copyright© Abelardo Morell
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