Robert Frank

signed, titled, and dated '1956' in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil on the reverse, framed, Bloom Collection and Pace Wildenstein MacGill labels on the reverse 1956, printed in the 1970s

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 2012

The Americans, no. 9

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, pp. 220 and 462, and Contact no. 9

U. S. Camera [Annual] 1958, p. 98

LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography, p. 177

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, cover and p. 17

Robert Frank: Story Lines, frontispiece 4

This photograph, on double-weight semi-glossy paper, is in generally excellent condition. It exhibits a wide range of tones, from rich, inky black in the sitter's dress to bright, clean highlights in the sitter's fur wrap. Upon very close examination, a thin, diagonal, faint one-inch deposit of indeterminate nature (possibly glass offsetting) is visible in the lower left quadrant. The margin edges are very modestly age-darkened. There are a few faint fingerprints on the reverse of the print. The following is written on the reverse in an unidentified hand in pencil: '230'; '186 / 9-196 [partially crossed out]; 'EHG 211'; and 'PF86719-222.'
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It is believed that only one other print of this image has appeared at auction.