About the Artwork
Kazimierz
1938
Roman Vishniac
1897-1990
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 × 13 3/4 inches (27.9 × 34.9 cm) Mount: 20 × 14 7/8 inches (50.8 × 37.8 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust
1994.48
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, on mount, lower right: R. Vishniac
Inscribed, in pen and ink, on mount, below image, lower left: 1938....[Yiddish text] / KAZIMIERZ 1938
Stamp, in black ink, verso, upper center: YIVO Pictorial Division | No. [handwritten] 1384 Stamp, in black ink, verso, lower center: FROM THE ESTATE OF ROMAN VISHNIAC | [copyright mark] COLLECTION OF MARA VISHNIAC KOHN Label, affixed to verso, lower center, in pen and black ink: YIVO 72
Provenance
(G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York, USA)
1994-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Roman Vishniac, Kazimierz, 1938, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust, 1994.48.
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