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Robert Frank

'S. C.' (Funeral—St. Helena, South Carolina)

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

'S. C.' (Funeral—St. Helena, South Carolina)


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1955, printed no later than 1978

image: 12½ by 8⅛ in. (31.8 by 20.6 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

The Americans, no. 56


Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 67


Robert Frank (New York, 1985), pl. 38


Martin W. Sander, American Image: Photographing One Hundred Fifty Years in the Life of a Nation (Chicago, 1989), p. 219


Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), p. 207


Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 278 and 476, and Contact no. 56


Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 137