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Francesca Woodman

1958–1981

Untitled c.1980
© Woodman Family Foundation / Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London
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Black-and-white photograph mounted on paper: seen from above, a young woman in a dark jumper and bare legs crouches over a mirror lying on the floor, gazing up. Below, in red handwriting: 'see you Sunday, Bow Wow, love Spot'.

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1975–6
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio
Black-and-white photograph looking down on a nude woman curved across a speckled terrazzo floor, face hidden and arm outstretched, beside a white enamel basin holding two coiled eels

Untitled, from Eel Series, Venice, Italy

Francesca Woodman
1978
Square black and white photograph of a woman in a dark dress and knee-high boots standing in a bare room, leaning forward with hands splayed, her face erased by motion blur

Space², Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1976
Blurred black-and-white photograph of a figure in a bare room bending sharply forward, motion smearing the body and pale cloth into a ghostly arc above dark high-heeled shoes on a concrete floor

Space², Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1976

Untitled, from Polka Dots Series, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1976
Black-and-white photograph of a young woman seated naked except for dark shoes on a white chair in the sunlit corner of a bare, peeling room, hands resting between her knees, her blurred shadow spilling across the floorboards

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1976
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

Untitled, Rome, Italy

Francesca Woodman
1977–8
Black-and-white view through a dark doorway: a blurred barefoot figure wrapped in billowing white fabric, and beyond it a white panel leaning against the wall with a single dark glove hovering before it

Untitled, from Angel Series, Rome, Italy

Francesca Woodman
1977
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Black-and-white photograph mounted on paper: seen from above, a young woman in a dark jumper and bare legs crouches over a mirror lying on the floor, gazing up. Below, in red handwriting: 'see you Sunday, Bow Wow, love Spot'.

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1975–6
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio
Black-and-white photograph looking down on a nude woman curved across a speckled terrazzo floor, face hidden and arm outstretched, beside a white enamel basin holding two coiled eels

Untitled, from Eel Series, Venice, Italy

Francesca Woodman
1978

Untitled, from Polka Dots Series, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1976
Black-and-white photograph of a young woman seated naked except for dark shoes on a white chair in the sunlit corner of a bare, peeling room, hands resting between her knees, her blurred shadow spilling across the floorboards

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1976
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

Untitled, Rome, Italy

Francesca Woodman
1977–8
Black-and-white view through a dark doorway: a blurred barefoot figure wrapped in billowing white fabric, and beyond it a white panel leaning against the wall with a single dark glove hovering before it

Untitled, from Angel Series, Rome, Italy

Francesca Woodman
1977

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1975–8
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1975–8
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio
Black and white photograph of a derelict room with a peeling ceiling, where a heavy panelled door leans diagonally over a nude figure crouching beneath its lower edge on bare floorboards

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1976
Blurred black and white photograph of a woman in a patterned dress bending over scattered debris on bare floorboards in a derelict room, a long strip of bright light sweeping from her hand

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman
1975–8
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

Me and Benjamin in May

Francesca Woodman
c.1976
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

Untitled, New York

Francesca Woodman
1979–80

Untitled

Francesca Woodman
c.1980

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