Lot 182
  • 182

Robert Frank

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Frank
  • U. S. 90, EN ROUTE TO DEL RIO, TEXAS
  • Gelatin silver print
framed, 1955, printed circa 1970

Provenance

Light Gallery, New York, 1972

Private collection, New Mexico

Phillips New York, 27 April 2005, Sale 040105, Lot 33

Literature

Other prints of this image:

The Americans: Photographs by Robert Frank (New York, 1986), p. 175

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 311, 483, and Contact #83

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), p. 47

Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), p. [7]

 

 

Condition

This impressive print, on Agfa Brovira paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. There is minor rippling at the left and right margin edges.
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