From the Bus, New York

1958

Robert Frank

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Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a hand extending from a car window in a traffic scene. The image is in black and white, capturing a candid moment of a street with several cars, including a vintage one in focus directly ahead. The primary focus is on the hand with a cigarette between the fingers, resting casually out of the car window. The background reveals the urban setting, with the back of another car visible alongside the vehicular congestion characteristic of a bustling city street. The architecture in the background appears to suggest an older, possibly historical building.

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Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1993.

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Wikidata ID

Q64161354

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