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NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. Summer evening.

1989

Gilles Peress

Associated Names

Gilles Peress

Artist, French, born 1946

This is a photograph of an urban street scene. The image shows a street corner with several individuals huddled against a brick wall with faint graffiti. Across the street is a plain building facade. To the right, a fire burns on the road, emitting light and smoke into the sky. In the background are rows of terraced houses and a single parked vehicle near the street. The ground is littered with debris.

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with funds donated by the Marlin Miller, Jr. Family Foundation and by exchange: John Bryant and Patricia Bauman)
Dimensions

image: 38.42 × 56.9 cm (15 1/8 × 22 3/8 in.)
sheet: 50.8 × 60.5 cm (20 × 23 13/16 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.5201

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jeffrey Ladd, Brooklyn, NY; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2010; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom right in graphite underlined: Gilles Peress; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 2010.003.001

Wikidata ID

Q64154290

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