CBS Studio, Hollywood (Television studio--Burbank, California)

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

Date1956; printed ca. 1970s

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 × 12 inches (20.32 × 30.48 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (27.76 × 35.23 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2016.25.2

SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Robert Frank"

InscribedInscribed and dated on sheet recto, lower left, in black pen: "CBS Studio Hollywood 1956"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "103"; On sheet verso, central right, in pencil: "6-21 6"; On sheet verso, lower right corner, yellow circular label with black pen: "P1K / A-145"

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DescriptionImage of woman seated while being filmed in studio; she's smiling and looking off towards a television on a cart which displays the recording.Provenance

Provenance

Purchased from Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY by private collector, 1993;
Purchased from the private collector’s sale, Photographs No. 8227, Sotheby's, New York, October 17, 2006, lot 204, by Ruth and Jake Bloom, California, 1998;
Purchased fron their sale Robert Frank: The American The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection No. 9249, Sotheby's, New York, December 17, 2015, lot 28, by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

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