Friends Now Gone Forever...

1950-1971

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

The collage-style image features multiple photographs of people in different settings and poses. One image shows a man wearing a plaid shirt and a hat, looking to the side. Another image includes an older man with glasses sitting near a window. A young woman in a light-colored dress is seen facing the camera in another photo. A man in a suit and glasses smiles in front of a tall building visible through a window. Another photo displays a man in a checkered shirt holding objects and looking out of a door. A man drinking from a bottle at the beach is captured in a different image. The collage also contains close-up images of people interacting and expressions ranging from contemplative to neutral. The backgrounds vary between indoor and outdoor settings, creating a patchwork of unique moments.
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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from the Edward E. MacCrone Charitable Trust by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 2.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Robert Frank 1971 / Friends gone away....; all by later hands: upper left verso in graphite: 300-42 VII; upper right verso in graphite: 300-42 VII / LOMH 2 / RF 248 / lower right verso, on label in black ink: P 3

Wikidata ID

Q64164038

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