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Signed and inscribed recto, on mount, lower left, below image, in graphite: "Angus McBean / London '48"; inscribed, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Hugh Be[?] [sight]"; verso unchecked
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Byron Smith
Reference Number
1976.688
Extended information about this artwork
Art Institute of Chicago, “Object as Subject,” February 17–May 20, 2001. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Mind at Play,” June 14–September 7, 2008. (David Travis)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, “Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera 1928–1983,” November 13, 1987–January 10, 1988.
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