Robert Frank
Selected Images of Artists (for Harper’s Bazaar)
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February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
Selected Images of Artists (for Harper’s Bazaar)
a group of 4 gelatin silver prints, comprising Saul Steinberg, Willem de Kooning, and Zero Mostel, each mounted, one titled and dated 'Sol [sic] Steinberg, 1961' in ink on the image and signed in ink in the margin, 1954-1962, each printed before 1962 (4)
image: each approximately 9 by 13½ in. (22.9 by 34.3 cm.) or the reverse
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
Jean Dutourd, 'Homage to the Bed,' Harper's Bazaar, June 1962, Vol. 95, No. 3007, pp. 44-47 (Saul Steinberg, Zero Mostel: these prints)
'Edgar Varèse, Willem De Kooning,' Harper's Bazaar, November 1962, Vol. 96, No. 3012, pp. 166-69 (Willem de Kooning: these prints)
Robert Frank arrived in New York in February 1947, and shortly thereafter began working as an assistant photographer at Harper's Bazaar. While he worked there less than a year, he would continue to freelance for the magazine through the 1950s and early 1960s. It was during this time that he met fellow photographers Louis Faurer, Elliott Erwitt, Sid Grossman, and Bill Brandt, as well as legendary art director Alexey Brodovitch.