Lot 39
  • 39

Robert Frank

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Frank
  • 'paris'
signed, titled, and dated by the photographer in ink on the image, his copyright stamp, credited in an unidentified hand in ink, and numbered '5-51' and annotated 'Lines 33' and 'Archive 1090' in unidentified hands in pencil, on the reverse, matted, framed, 1951, printed later

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 8 May 1984, Sale 5176, Lot 152

Sotheby's New York, 6 April 1993, Sale 6407, Lot 441

Private Collector, San Francisco, acquired from the above

Literature

Another print of this image:

Diverse Images: Photographs from the New Orleans Museum of Art (Garden City, 1979), p. 31

Condition

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. The corners are lightly bumped, and there is slight rippling in the paper, visible only at the edges. Visible in raking light is a 1/8-inch area of original retouching in the upper right quadrant. There are 4 very tiny rust-colored stains along the right margin edge.
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