City of London
1951
Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019
Robert Frank
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.3 x 15.4 cm (9 3/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1994.23.4
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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
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