Life Dances On...

c. 1980

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This image consists of four black and white photographs tiled together, each capturing a middle-aged man from the shoulders up. The man is wearing a baseball cap and glasses, with his facial hair visible as a beard and mustache. His expression appears to be one of amusement, with his mouth open in a broad smile. He wears a casual jacket zipped halfway over a light-colored shirt. The surroundings suggest an outdoor setting with indistinct figures and objects in the blurred background, including a building and a car in view. His hand is motion-blurred in two of the frames.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from the Mars Foundation by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 103.

Inscriptions

across bottom in black ink: Marty Greenbaum on the Fourth of July 1980--Life dances on...Fireworks and Music; lower right verso in black ink: from: Life dances on / 1981 / R. Frank; all by later hands in graphite: upper left verso: 3042A VII / Tirape Valencia; upper right verso: 3042A VII / LOMH 103 / RF269 / g; upper left verso: 105

Wikidata ID

Q64164046

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