Robert Frank
New York (People Seated on Bench, Rockefeller Center)
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
New York (People Seated on Bench, Rockefeller Center)
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed in ink, annotated 'Frank, 10-14' by Grace Mayer in pencil, a circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, circa 1955, printed before 1957
image: 13½ by 9 in. (34.3 by 22.9 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, ‘70 Photographers Look at New York,’ November 1957 – April 1958
'70 Photographers Look at New York' was the first exhibition that Grace Mayer worked on at The Museum of Modern Art. Her distinctive handwriting is on the reverse of many exhibition prints from the late 1950s and 1960s.
