Francesca Woodman

1976

Gift of the photographer to the present owner, 1970s, when students together at the Rhode Island School of Design

The full negative:

Chris Townsend, Francesca Woodman (London and New York, 2006), p. 91

Marco Pierini, ed., Francesca Woodman (Siena: SMS Contemporanea, 2009), p. 170

Corey Keller, Francesca Woodman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011), pp. 7 and 204

Gabriele Schor and Elizabeth Bronfen, eds., Francesca Woodman: Works from the Sammlung Verbund (Cologne, 2014), p. 133 

This photograph, on double-weight, slightly warm-toned paper with a surface sheen, is in generally very good to excellent condition. As is sometimes typical of Francesca Woodman's lifetime prints, it has been printed slightly asymmetrically on the sheet. Woodman's deliberate cropping of this image was achieved in the darkroom. The outline of her easel, which held the paper during exposure, is visible. There is a small area of rust-colored staining at the upper right corner, and another tiny deposit in the left margin. The margin edges and corners are gently bumped with occasional minor chipping to the emulsion. The margins are curling slightly. There are several rust-colored deposits on the reverse.
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