Portrait of a Shade

1953
(American, 1899–1998)
Image: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.); Paper: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
© Estate of Ilse Bing
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Location: not on view

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While a striking study of light and shadow, this work also has an emotional component. Bing’s sense of isolation and alienation in New York can be intuited from this view of a window that reveals nothing of the outside world.
Portrait of a Shade

Portrait of a Shade

1953

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
America

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