Robert Frank
'Museum of Modern Art Party' (Cocktail Party—New York City)
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February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'Museum of Modern Art Party' (Cocktail Party—New York City)
oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil on the reverse, 1955, printed no later than 1978
image: 12⅜ by 18⅞ in. (31.4 by 47.9 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 53
Gilbert Millstein, 'In Each a Self-Portrait,' The New York Times, 17 January 1960, p. 134
Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 19
Michael Shelden, 'Melancholy and Menace,' Telegraph Magazine, 3 May 2008, p. 32
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 274 and 475, and Contact no. 53
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