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Beauty Palace, New York

Artist Evelyn Hofer (American, born Germany, 1922 - 2009)
Date1963
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsImage: 17 5/8 × 14 1/4 inches (44.78 × 36.2 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 15 7/8 inches (50.8 × 40.31 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2019.39.15
SignedSigned on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Evelyn Hofer"
InscribedOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Beauty palace / New York 1963"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of an elaborately adorned room with red fabric draped from the ceiling down the walls. A chandelier hangs above a row of wicker chairs with hooded hair dryers behind them.Provenance
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas CIty, MO, 2019;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2019.
Copyright© Estate of Evelyn Hofer
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