Title from caption on object: “Two Victims of the Hungarian Revolt...”

October 25, 1956

Unknown 20th Century

Associated Names
Unknown, 20th Century

Artist

United Press Association

Publisher

Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA)

Publisher, est. 1902

This is a painting of an outdoor scene with draped cloths and a hat. The image depicts two large draped fabric pieces lying on a surface. A hat is placed atop one of the fabric piles, while another hat lies beside it on the ground. The painting utilizes a monochromatic color palette of black, white, and gray. The ground is textured with scattered dark spots. The background includes abstract structures and faint shadows.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 13 × 20.3 cm (5 1/8 × 8 in.)
    sheet: 13.8 × 22.9 cm (5 7/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.426

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black ink, white and grey paint; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite circled: 23; upper center in blue ink inverted: A202-B; upper center printed in image inverted: NXP/RVA 1116881-10/29-BUDAPEST: Two victims of the Hungarian revolt lie covered / at the foot of a monument in Parliament Building here. The Hungarian government / pleaded 10/28 with [t]he people to end the revolt, saying in a broadcast, "You have / won." UNITED PRESS RADIOTELEPHOTO rb; by unknown hand, center in orange crayon inverted: 3 col Reg / Victims; lower left in graphite underlined: 42; lower right stamped in red ink perpendicular: NOV - 7 '56 / N.E.A.

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