Lot 122
  • 122

Robert Frank

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Frank
  • 'POLITICAL RALLY - CHICAGO'
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 11 3/8 x 7 ΒΌ inches
signed and dated in ink in the margin, the photographer's 'Robert Frank Archive' stamp, with title, 'Americans 58,' and number '225' in pencil, on the reverse, 1956, printed in 1977

Provenance

Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd., Washington, D. C., 1978

Literature

The Americans: Photographs by Robert Frank (New York, 1986), p. 167

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 281 and 476, Contact Sheet #58

'A Pageant Portfolio: One Man's U. S. A., Photographs by Robert Frank,' Pageant, April 1958, p. 27

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, et al., Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 180

Anne Wilkes Tucker and Philip Brookman, eds., Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia (Houston:  Museum of Fine Arts, 1986), p. 33

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), frontispiece

Helen Gee, Photography of the Fifties (Center for Creative Photography, 1980), cover and p. 156

John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 152

John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs (The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 177

Jonathan Green, American Photography, A Critical History, 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 89

Condition

This print, on double-weight paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition.
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