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Still Life with Shells and Pipe
image recto overall
image recto overall

Still Life with Shells and Pipe

Artist Otto Steinert (German, 1915 - 1978)
Date1958
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 15 11/16 × 11 7/8 inches (39.85 × 30.15 cm)
Mount: 17 1/4 × 13 inches (43.82 × 33.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.15.28
Signednone
InscribedOn mount verso, upper right, blue stamp: "AMATEUR / PHOTOGRAPHER / 18 MAY 1960"; On mount verso, center, in black pen: "FOTO UND COPYRIGHT: / PROF. DR. OTTO STEINERT / ESSEN-FOLKWANGSCHULE / "STILLEBEN MIT MUSCHELN UND PFEIFE" "
MarkingsOn mount recto, lower left, in pencil: "42/40"; On mount verso, upper left corner, blue stamp [illeg.] with brown pen: "17428-30 / [? torn]...erues 20"; On mount verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "26-11-13"; On mount verso, upper right, in pencil: "14303"; On mount verso, top, in pencil: "RPS to Lascelles / 7" deep 120# / folio 4/3 [circled]"; On mount verso, right edge, in pencil: "[scribbled out] 6 5/8 deel [?] / 8 [circled]"; On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "RPS/4", "40 [circled]"
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DescriptionStill life image of seashells on mirror with pipe on broken plate illuminated with sunlight from nearby window.
Copyright© Galerie Johannes Faber
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