Caerau, Wales

1953

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of an interior scene featuring a group of people in a smoke-filled room. The image captures a moment in a social setting, likely within a pub or a similar establishment. The central focus is a figure holding a cigarette, enveloped partly in smoke. The background includes a group of individuals at a table. The room is dimly lit with a warm, intimate ambiance punctuated by the glow from a ceiling light fixture. The composition gives a strong sense of a moment frozen in time.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Frank, New York; (Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York); Betsy Karel, Washington, DC, 2003; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 16 March 2016 - 19 June 2016

  • Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2016, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in black ink: Robert Frank; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 3090-III; upper right: RF.664 / 3090-III; upper center in orange crayon with arrows pointed left and right: 23 PICAS; center surrounded by illegible scribbles: F; on white inverted label affixed to center right, in blue ink circled in orange pencil crayon: Robert Frank; on white label affixed to lower left in blue ink: LB 468; on strip of masking tape affixed to lower right: 22 [circled] AT 7 PM EACH / THURSDAY AT / THE CLUB

Wikidata ID

Q64163071

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