Swallowed Coin, Military Hospital

1918

French 20th Century

Associated Names
French 20th Century

Artist

This is a photograph of a chest X-ray. The image shows the skeletal structure of a torso, highlighting the ribcage and shoulder bones. In the central region, a circular object is visible within the chest cavity. The varying shades of gray in the image represent different densities of tissue and bone. The top left corner has a label with handwriting, providing additional information about the X-ray.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.1 × 17.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 23.6 × 17.9 cm (9 5/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.180.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris); (Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco), 2012; NGA purchase, 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • "The Unphotographable," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California, January 3 - March 23, 2013.

Bibliography

2013

  • The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2013: plate 29.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, upper left on label in black ink: Hodi[n] / Larynx / 18-3-18

Wikidata ID

Q64144692

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