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

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Robert Frank

Chicago (Car)

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

Chicago (Car)


oversized gelatin silver print, signed and dated in ink on the image, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1956, probably printed in the late 1950s or 1960s

image: 18¾ by 13¾ in. (47.6 by 34.9 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

The Americans, no. 79


Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 20


Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 89


Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 305 and 482, and Contact no. 79


Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 152