Place de l'Etoile

1951-1952

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a flower stall and street scene. The image features a covered flower stall with the word "FLEURS" painted on a fabric draping over it. The left side of the image shows a portion of the flower display with various blooms in vases or containers. To the right, part of a building structure is visible, displaying posters. In the background, there is a blurred figure of a person walking away in an urban street environment. The scene is captured in black and white.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 23.8 x 34.1 cm (9 3/8 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1990.28.26

  • Copyright

    © Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Robert Frank: Moving Out, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Yokohama Museum of Art; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, 1994-1996, no. 31.

2009

  • Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, no. 16.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 26.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 66.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 1011-IV

Wikidata ID

Q64161113

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