City of London

1951

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

Robert Frank

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from The Howard Gilman Foundation by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 78.

  • 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. 43.

2000

  • "Hold Still-Keep Going", Museum Folkwang Essen; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2000-2001.

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. 44.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 78.

Inscriptions

all by later hands: upper left verso in graphite: 2405 III 20 [circled] C; upper left verso in graphite: CCYB; upper right verso in graphite: 31 1/4 cms; upper right verso in graphite: A. 29; 2405 III / RF.103.2; lower left verso in graphite: X; diagonally from lower left to upper right in graphite: [ruled line]; vertically from lower right edge to upper right edge, in graphite: [ruled arrow]

Wikidata ID

Q64163008

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