Sick of Goodby's

1978

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

Sid Kaplan

Printer, American

This black-and-white photograph shows bold, dripping letters painted on what appear to be mirrors across two sections of the photograph. The top half has the phrase "Sick of" painted with irregular, elongated lines. In the reflection of this mirror, an unseen person has their arm extended on the left, holding up a small doll. In the bottom half of the photograph, the words "Good Bye's" appear in a similar bold, uneven script, a smaller mirror below them. The abstract letters resemble handwritten text or graffiti, and paint drips down from the letters. More reflections and shadows are visible around the painted mirrors, but the shapes are hard to identify.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from the Collectors Committee by NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Robert Frank: Moving Out, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Yokohama Museum of Art; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, 1994-1996, no. 138.

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 251.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 105.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 251.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Robert Frank; lower left verso in black ink: R. Frank; lower right verso in black ink: PRINTER: KAPLAN DEC '78; all by later hands: upper left verso in blue pencil: A 51%; upper right verso in graphite: 233-VI / LOMH 105 / RF.230

Wikidata ID

Q64161329

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