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Inscribed recto, lower left, below image, in black ink: "BAD DREAM March 28t 1978 in Venice + Los Angeles Calif."; signed recto, lower right, below image, in black ink: "Robert Frank."; inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "YAJIMA [?]/RF-1603 225-VI (M)"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "MFA,H RF #160"; inscribed and signed verso, lower right, in black ink: "PRINTERS: B / Kaplan / R. Frank. / Dec '78"
Dimensions
Image: 39.2 × 24.9 cm (15 7/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Paper: 50.7 × 40.5 cm (20 × 16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart,” October 7, 2006-January 14, 2007 (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Robert Frank: Photos Books Films,” May 27-August 20, 2017.
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