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
'South Carolina' (Beaufort)
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'South Carolina' (Beaufort)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and rectangular label with annotations in pencil on the reverse, 1955, probably printed in the late 1950s
image: 8¾ by 13 in. (22.2 by 33 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 55
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 65
Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), pl. 320
Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 199
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 1
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 277, 475, and 481, and Contact no. 55
David Campany, The Open Road: Photography & The American Road Trip (New York, 2014), p. 51
Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, Süddeutschen Zeitung (Robert Frank, Books and Films, 1947-2016) (Göttingen, 2016), p. 14