Table of the Permeability of Various Substances to Roentgen Rays

1896·Photogravure, plate No. 5 from "Research on Photography with Röntgen Rays (Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen)"·Image: 23 × 17.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Paper: 25.8 × 20.6 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Mount: 48.9 × 34.1 cm (19 5/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund

Catalogue

Year: 1896
Medium: Photogravure, plate No. 5 from "Research on Photography with Röntgen Rays (Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen)"
Dimensions: Image: 23 × 17.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Paper: 25.8 × 20.6 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Mount: 48.9 × 34.1 cm (19 5/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Josef Šíma

Artist

Josef Šíma

Painting

Josef Šíma was a Czech-born painter and printmaker who settled in Paris and became a central figure in Surrealist circles during the interwar period. Working primarily in oil and etching, his compositions combined dreamlike landscapes with architectural forms rendered in muted, atmospheric palettes. He exhibited with the Surrealist movement in the 1930s and maintained a distinctive visual language that blended geometric structure with psychological introspection.

Paris, France

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