Lot 145
  • 145

Robert Frank

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Frank
  • 'HOBOKEN'
  • Gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, the photographer's copyright stamp, with credit and date in ink, and the 'Robert Frank Archive' stamp, with numbers '1' and '716' in pencil, on the reverse, framed, 1955, probably printed in the 1970s

Literature

Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1995 edition), cover and p. 11

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), cover, pp. 211, 460, and Contact #1

Robert Frank, Lines of My Hand (New York, 1989), unpaginated

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 175

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), cover

Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 3

'Der Photograph Robert Frank,' Du, January 1962, p. 16

John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 155

John Szarkowski, Photography Until Now (The Museum of Modern Art, 1989), p, 258

Peter Galassi, American Photography, 1890-1965 (The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 215

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 316

Condition

This print is bright, clear, and shows a great deal of detail, from the texture of the building's brick facade to the sitter's facial expression. This photograph is on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface. It is in essentially excellent condition. There is minor wear to the upper right margin edge, and the tips of the margin corners are bumped. On the reverse of the print, the photographer's copyright stamp is dated '1979' in an unidentified hand in pencil. Also on the reverse are the following notations in pencil: '9/79' and '26.'
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