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Robert Frank

'Belle Isle - Detroit'

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

'Belle Isle - Detroit'


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, probably printed in the late 1950s or 1960s

image: 8⅝ by 13 in. (21.9 by 33 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

The Americans, no. 77


Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 302, 481, and 483, and Contact no. 77-78


Gretchen Garner, Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography (Baltimore, 2003), p. 162