Robert Frank

Store Window (Washington, D. C.)

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October 5, 03:20 PM GMT

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15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Robert Frank

b. 1924

Store Window (Washington, D. C.)

gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and annotated ‘Washington DC’ in ink in the margin, the ‘Robert Frank Archive’ stamp, with title, 'The Americans 59,' and '846' in pencil, on the reverse, framed, 1956, printed later

image: 8 ½ by 13 ¾ in. (21.6 by 34.9 cm.)

frame: 16 ¼ by 20 ¼ in. (41.3 by 51.4 cm.)

Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D. C., 1992

The Americans, no. 59

Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (New York, 1989), unpaginated

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven, 1977), p. 33

Susan Kismaric, American Politicians: Photographs from 1843-1993 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994), p. 154

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 155

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 230

Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 2

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 282 and 477, and Contact no. 59