Lot 163
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ROBERT FRANK | Political Rally - Chicago

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Frank
  • Political Rally - Chicago
  • 13 1/8  by 8 3/4  in. (33.3 by 22.2 cm.)
signed in ink in the margin, framed, 1956, probably printed in the late 1970s or early 1980s

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1999

Literature

The Americans, no. 58

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

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), frontispiece

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

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

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

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

Condition

This photograph, on double-weight Agfa paper measuring approximately 15-7/8 by 12 inches overall, is in generally excellent condition. 'RFA 058.5' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse.
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