Robert Frank

titled and dated '1955' and signed and dated '1977' in ink in the margin, the archive stamp, with title, 'Americans 82' and '499' in pencil, on the reverse, framed, a Bloom Collection label on the reverse, 1956, printed in the 1970s

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

Douglas Kenyon Gallery, 1979

Private Collection

Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York, 2004

The Americans, no. 82

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, pp. 309, 482, and 483, and Contact no. 82

'The Highway: Four Photographs by Robert Frank,' Current, November 1960, p. 36

Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 18

Robert Frank (Aperture), p. 37

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, p. 39

Robert Frank, Robert Frank, pl. 37

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 195

Robert Frank: Story Lines, frontispiece 2

This warm-toned print is on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface. The title and date appear to have faded but are still legible. There is an uneven rust-colored shift in tonality that appears in two bands, at the top and at the bottom of the image. Silvering is visible under raking light along the perimeter of the image. The signature is dark and bold. The bottom left margin corner has a minor bend that does not appear to break the emulsion. The reverse of the print is clean with a few scattered, minor marks, and two hinge remnants. It is believed that only 4, or possibly 5, other prints of this image have previously been offered at auction.
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