Title from caption on object: “But There Was a Day When One Woman Was Enough; Her Name Was Garbo. She Didn’t Have to Take Her Clothes Off."
1931
Artist, American, 1896 - 1979
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.3 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2018.177.291
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ricardo Linares [?]; (sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey paint; by unknown hand, lower right in negative: MC-19388; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 20" / GARBO + ANGIE; upper left in blue pencil: Greta; upper right stamped in red ink perpendicular: R 19 1932; center right reproduction of image in black ink on applied newspaper; center right stamped in black ink on applied newspaper: SEP 14 1980 D; lower left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: reigns supreme. But there was a day when / one woman was enough; her name was Gar- / bo. [circled in purple ink] She didn't have to take her clothes off.; lower left stamped in red ink perpendicular: 19 1932; lower right stamped in red ink perpendicular: [1]932