"It Was So Windy in the Eiffel Tower," Paris, 1931

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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sheet: 22.1 × 28.2 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
mount: 35.1 × 41.9 cm (13 13/16 × 16 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography

Accession Number

1998.78.1

Artists / Makers

Ilse Bing (artist) American, born Germany, 1899 - 1998

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Inscription

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: P29; all on mount: upper left stamped in black ink: FOTO / ILSE BING / 1931; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: #1

Provenance

(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York); purchased with donated funds from Marvin Breckinridge Patterson by NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Houk Gallery, Edwynn

Exhibition History

1999: Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.

Bibliography

1985: Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography. Exh. cat. New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, 1985: pl. 3.

1998: Ilse Bing: Vision of a Century. Exh. cat. Edwynn Houk Gallery. New York, 1998: p. 45.