Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) Two women, one in slip, one in robe. New York, 1979. Vintage silver print. Pace Wildenstein MacGill Gallery label on verso of print and frame. Image : 25 x 25 cm / Sheet : 35,5 x 28 cm - frame Provenance: Pace Wildenstein MacGill Gallery, New York. Exhibition and bibliography: Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, cat. exhibition, April 11 - May 31 1998, Scalo, Zurich - Berlin - New York, 1998, p. 134. Francesca Woodman's work is striking in that attempts to interpret her work are as varied and speculative as her words are rare and clear. Her short career, from Colorado to Rhode Island (where she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design), from Italy to New York, takes the form of a teeming search for identity, using the potential of the photographic medium as a framework. Notions of absence, erasure and - often total - unveiling are confronted with the notion of constraining space: "I am interested in the way people relate to space. The best way to do this is to depict their interactions to the boundaries of these spaces". His keen understanding of the relationship between photography and the imaginary - of the cognitive disorder induced by any deviation from conventional optics or representations - nourishes his work throughout the period, and underpins his remarkable creative maturity. This remarkable vintage print, shown in 1998 at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in the now historic eponymous exhibition, is part of a very rare corpus of prints made during the artist's lifetime. Important French private collection - N°225 to 261