Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: ILLUSTRATED
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1952-10-18
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007441

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: CE11, 420 / London / Kiss For Sale / Museum / Tate Gallery / [illeg.] / It has been in Britain for / half a century. And all the / time there has been controversy / Once it was covered with a / sheet For 18 years it stood / forgotten among the rubble. / Now / “the Kiss” is on the market; stamped: “ILLUSTRATED” COPYRIGHT / Negative No. / Must not be reproduced / without permission; handwritten: [arrow pointing up] [arrow pointing up] / 12” / 5 1//2” / [illeg.] / [arrow pointing down] [arrow pointing down]; stamped: 18 OCT 1952; handwritten: 130; stamped: CREDIT: / from BLACK STAR, / CLIFFORDS INN, LONDON. [struck through]; handwritten: Graybar Bldg, NYC

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / MUSEUMS
Retouching: N