On the Road: Photographs by Robert Frank from the Collection of Arthur S. Penn
On the Road: Photographs by Robert Frank from the Collection of Arthur S. Penn
Robert Frank
Assembly line—Detroit
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
Assembly line—Detroit
gelatin silver print, signed in ink and with numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1955, probably printed in the late 1950s or 1960s
image: 9½ by 14 in. (24.1 by 35.6 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 50
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6, p. 100
Michael Shelden, 'Melancholy and Menace,' Telegraph Magazine, 3 May 2008, p. 36
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 270 and 474, and Contact no. 50
Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, Süddeutschen Zeitung (Robert Frank, Books and Films, 1947-2016) (Göttingen, 2016), p. 15