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Paris Windows with Flags, Bastille Day

Paris Windows with Flags, Bastille Day

1933
(American, 1899–1998)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 22.3 x 28.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund 1990.87
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14, is a French national holiday that commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison, the turning point of the French Revolution of 1789.

Description

Ilse Bing’s preference for tightly organized geometric compositions is taken to an extreme in this elegant essay on diagonals. Because she was looking up and from the side, what should have been a rectangular grid of pillars and window ledges contains not a single horizontal or vertical line.
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  • {{cite web|title=Paris Windows with Flags, Bastille Day|url=false|author=Ilse Bing|year=1933|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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