Extent:

123.5 Linear Feet (90 boxes)

Scope and content:

Series VII.B. Photographic files from the London office primarily consists of photographs, but may also include "pedigree" documentation of the artworks and copies of related correspondence. The photographs are usually identified by the stock number assigned to them by the London office and may be annotated with the stock number used by the office in New York. If both New York and London numbers are used, the London number is often enclosed in parentheses. London stock numbers may be preceded by the letter L and are lower numerically than the New York stock numbers. Stock numbers appear on the verso of the photographs or on the original housing of the photographs.

Note that the files that were maintained by the office in New York (Series VII.A.) appear to contain files from the office in London. The London files may have been partially integrated with the New York files after the closing of the office in London. The filing system by alphabetical order of artist names, which was maintained by the office in London, is similar to the one used by the office in New York, which would have facilitated the integration of the two groups of files. Series VII.B. therefore consists of the London files that were housed separately from the files in Series VII.A. upon receipt of the archive in Los Angeles. Files in Series VII.A., which appear to be London files, have been left in situ in Series VII.A.

By contrast, the Paris office used a distinct system of filing. This may explain the relatively small size of Series VII.B. in comparison to Series VII.C.

Arrangement:

Series VII.B. London office photographic files are arranged alphabetically by artist name in a system that sometimes diverges from the one used by the office in New York. The London office's arrangement and spelling used for artist names has been retained and a note is included for each artist that is filed under a different form of name in the New York files, Series VII.A.

The photographic files maintained by the office in London that appear to have been integrated by Knoedler staff with the files maintained by the office in New York have been left in situ in Series VII.A.

Series VII.B. is arranged into two groupings: Artist files and Albums.

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