Front / Recto
- Title If Women Wanted to Fly (Wenn Frauen fliegen wollen)
- Negative Date 1936
- Print Date 1936–55
- Medium Gelatin silver print with applied color
- Dimensions Image 9 15/16 × 7 13/16" (25.2 × 19.9 cm)
- Place Taken London
- Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Bequest of Clarence John Laughlin, by exchange
- MoMA Accession Number 512.2013
- Copyright © 2015 Herbert List/Magnum Photos
Back / Verso
- Marks and Inscriptions Inscribed in red pencil on sheet verso, top right: 13. Signed in black ink on sheet verso, top right: Herbert List/Paris. Inscribed in black ink on sheet verso, top center: "Wenn Frauen fliegen wollen." Stamped in red ink on sheet verso: BLACK STAR./CLIFFORDS INN. FLEET STREET,/LONDON, E.C.4./PICTURE ON LOAN. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, center right: London 1936. Inscribed in green pencil on sheet verso, bottom center: If women should fly. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom left: Study [oriented upside down with respect to image]. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom left: 16 [circled]. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom center: PF 24639. Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso, bottom right: TW 770709.
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Provenance
The artist. Purchased by Thomas Walther, probably July 1977 [1]; purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
[1] Thomas Walther archival no. TW 770709 on sheet verso.
Surface
- Surface Sheen Semireflective
Paper Material
- Format Imperial
- Weight Single weight
- UV Fluorescence Recto negative Verso negative
- Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
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