Lot 134
  • 134

Robert Frank

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Frank
  • 'Inauguration Day' (Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.)
  • Gelatin silver print
oversized, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, 1957, printed later

Literature

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), pp. 216-17

Robert Frank, Hold Still/Keep Going (Essen: Museum Folkwang, 2000), unpaginated

Condition

This print, on paper with a semi-glossy surface, is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, faint, soft handling creases are visible in the upper and right margins. These do not affect the image. The margin corners are bumped.
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Catalogue Note

At the time of this writing, no other print of this image is believed to have been offered at auction.