Bicyclist passing flower vendor, Paris

1951

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a market scene featuring a bicycle and a flower vendor. The image captures the bicycle passing in the foreground with its rider slightly blurred due to motion. In the background, a vendor is situated beside a large wooden crate or stall, adorned with stacked newspapers and a basket filled with bouquets of flowers. The brickwork and spectral outlines of other carts or stalls in the setting suggest an urban marketplace environment.
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Provenance

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

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Wikidata ID

Q64164471

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