City of London, 1952

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 34.2 x 18.9 cm (13 7/16 x 7 7/16 in.)

sheet: 34.5 x 27.8 cm (13 9/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1994.23.1

Artists / Makers

Robert Frank (artist) American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

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Copyright

Inscription

lower left in black ink: London 1952; lower right in black ink: Robert Frank; all by later hands: upper right verso in graphite: 2090 III (L) / 5 LOMH 46; center verso in graphite: 295mm / Du 1 / S 4; lower left verso in graphite: MFAH RF#34; lower right verso in graphite: Return here / ersehzt: zwei Tuyens in Valencia / Banker London / Frank

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from The Howard Gilman Foundation by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Exhibition History

2000: "Hold Still-Keep Going", Museum Folkwang Essen; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 2000-2001.

2004: Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2004 - 2005, unnumbered catalogue.

2016: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2016, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1989: Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl.46.

2004: Robert Frank: Storylines. Exh. cat., Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. London: Tate Publishing, 2004.