Robert Frank

By descent through family

The photographs in Lots 105, 106, and 107 come originally from the collection of Roger Brunschwig, Robert Frank’s cousin. Cousins Roger and Claude Brunschwig sailed to America in November 1946, and Frank – disillusioned with life in his native Switzerland following World War II – joined them in New York City in March 1947. The cousins’ remembrances pepper R J Smith’s recent biography American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank (2017). 

Gifted by Frank to Roger Brunschwig in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this early print was signed by the photographer in 2017 when his great nephew visited him in New York.