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' (Political Rally)

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

'Chicago' (Political Rally)


oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled, 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: 19 by 12¾ in. (48.3 by 32.4 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

The Americans, no. 79


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


Robert Frank (New York, 1976) p. 31


Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 177


Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 3, p. 108 


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. 122


Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, Süddeutschen Zeitung (Robert Frank, Books and Films, 1947-2016) (Göttingen, 2016) p. 29