Robert Frank

large-format, signed and dated by the photographer in ink in the margin, 'Robert Frank Archive' stamp, titled, dated, numbered '412,' and annotated 'Lines 51' in an unidentified hand in pencil, and with his copyright stamp, credited and dated in an unidentified hand in ink, on the reverse, matted, 1951, printed later

Acquired by the present owner from Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, 1976

Other prints of this image:

Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (New York, 1989), unpaginated

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 81

Philip Brookman, ed., Robert Frank: London/Wales (Zurich, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C.), unpaginated

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), p. 9

Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibition), unpaginated

This print is in generally excellent condition. The corners are lightly bumped, and there is a pinpoint-sized accretion of indeterminate nature on the surface of the print in the sky area.
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