City of London
1952
Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 34.2 x 18.9 cm (13 7/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
sheet: 34.5 x 27.8 cm (13 9/16 x 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1994.23.1
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Copyright
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from The Howard Gilman Foundation by NGA, 1994.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
"Hold Still-Keep Going", Museum Folkwang Essen; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 2000-2001.
2004
Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2004 - 2005, unnumbered catalogue.
2016
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2016, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1989
Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl.46.
2004
Robert Frank: Storylines. Exh. cat., Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. London: Tate Publishing, 2004.
Inscriptions
lower left in black ink: London 1952; lower right in black ink: Robert Frank; all by later hands: upper right verso in graphite: 2090 III (L) / 5 LOMH 46; center verso in graphite: 295mm / Du 1 / S 4; lower left verso in graphite: MFAH RF#34; lower right verso in graphite: Return here / ersehzt: zwei Tuyens in Valencia / Banker London / Frank
Wikidata ID
Q64161386