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Topless Restaurant

Artist Bruce Davidson (American, born 1933)
Date1965
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 × 8 7/8 inches (22.4 × 22.53 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 inches (35.38 × 27.76 cm)
Credit LineGift of Bill and Peggy Lyons
Object number2017.40.12
SignedSigned on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Bruce Davidson"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "PF105770", "DAB 65-45-3/10", "475".
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DescriptionImage of three topless women in dressing room with clothes hanging on a rod behind them and a sewing machine in the foreground. The woman in the center is seated and holds a cigarette in her right hand.Provenance

William and Peggy Lyons, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.


Copyright© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
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