Front / Recto

  • Title Lustucru Pasta (Lustucru pâtes aux oeufs frais)
  • Negative Date 1930
  • Print Date 1930–39
  • Medium Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions Image 10 3/16 × 14 13/16" (25.8 × 37.7 cm)
  • Place Taken Lyon
  • Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Mrs. Ralph Seward Allen, by exchange
  • MoMA Accession Number 1624.2001
  • Copyright © Julie Picault-Demilly / Droits réservés

Back / Verso

  • Mount Type No mount
  • Marks and Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, top center: BLANC + DEMILLY. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, top right: R1939. Label affixed to sheet verso, bottom right, with text printed in black ink: BLANC &/DEMILLY/31, rue Grenette/LYON.
  • Provenance The artists; to the Blanc et Demilly studio, Lyon [1]; possibly to Hendrik Berinson, early to mid-1980s [2]. Carol Ehlers Gallery Ltd., Chicago [3]; purchased by Thomas Walther, April 21, 1998 [4]; purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
    [1] Hendrik Berinson, conversation with Simon Bieling, Galerie Berinson, Berlin, February 18, 2005.
    [2] Ibid.
    [3] MacGill/Walther 2000, p. 3; MacGill/Walther 2000(2), p. 17; and Carol Ehlers Gallery Ltd. invoice, April 21, 1998.
    [4] Ehlers invoice.

Surface

  • Surface Sheen Semireflective
  • Techniques Enlargement
  • PTM
    Detail view of the recto of the artwork made using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) software, which exaggerates subtle surface details and renders the features of the artwork plainly visible. Department of Conservation, MoMA
  • Micro-raking
    Raking-light close-up image, as shot. Area of detail is 6.7 x 6.7 mm. Department of Conservation, MoMA
    Raking-light close-up image, processed. Processing included removal of color, equalization of the histogram, and sharpening, all designed to enhance visual comparison. Department of Conservation, MoMA

Paper Material

  • Format Unknown
  • Weight Double weight
  • Thickness (mm) 0.28
  • UV Fluorescence Recto negative
    Verso negative
  • Fiber Analysis Softwood bleached sulfite 100%
  • Material Techniques Developing-out paper
  • XRF

    This work was determined to be a gelatin silver print via X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.

    The following elements have been positively identified in the work, through XRF readings taken from its recto and verso (or from the mount, where the verso was not accessible):

    • Recto: S, Ca, Zn, Sr, Ag, Ba
    • Verso: Al, S, Ca, Zn, Sr, Ba

    The graphs below show XRF spectra for three areas on the print: two of the recto—from areas of maximum and minimum image density (Dmax and Dmin)—and one of the verso or mount. The background spectrum represents the contribution of the XRF instrument itself. The first graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the lower energy range (0 to 8 keV). The second graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the higher energy range (8 to 40 keV).

    Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
    Elements identified: Al, S, Ca, Ag, Ba
    Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
    Elements identified: Zn, Sr, Ag

In Context

Historical Publications

  • L’illustration, March 15, 1930 (as untitled photograph in advertisement for Lustucru pasta, with the advertising copy “Lustucru: Les Pâtes aux Oeufs Frais; Régalent et Nourrissent”).

    Je sais tout, 1930 (as untitled photograph in advertisement for Lustucru pasta, with the advertising copy “Lustucru; Les Pâtes aux Oeufs Frais; Régalent et Nourrissent; A. Cartier-Millon, Grenoble”).

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