Max Penson
Rope Dancer

Rope Dancer
Rope Dancer
Rope Dancer
ArtistRussian, 1893–1959
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Rope Dancer
Date1925–1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 9 1/4 × 5 3/4 in. (23.5 × 14.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2898
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso in blue ink bottom right three lines in Russian[?] and a signature[?]
bottom right edge in pencil " 356 25 "

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