"It Was So Windy in the Eiffel Tower," Paris
1931
Artist, American, born Germany, 1899 - 1998
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 22.1 × 28.2 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
mount: 35.1 × 41.9 cm (13 13/16 × 16 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1998.78.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York); purchased with donated funds from Marvin Breckinridge Patterson by NGA, 1998.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1999
Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.
Bibliography
1985
Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography. Exh. cat. New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, 1985: pl. 3.
1998
Ilse Bing: Vision of a Century. Exh. cat. Edwynn Houk Gallery. New York, 1998: p. 45.
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: P29; all on mount: upper left stamped in black ink: FOTO / ILSE BING / 1931; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: #1
Wikidata ID
Q64155166