Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Robert Frank
Bar, Las Vegas, Nevada
Lot Closed
April 10, 02:54 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
Bar, Las Vegas, Nevada
gelatin silver print, signed in pencil on the reverse, framed
image: 6¼ by 9⅜ in. (15.9 by 23.8 cm.)
frame: 18½ by 21⅝ in. (47 by 54.9 cm.)
Executed in 1955.
Houk Friedman, New York
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), p. 56
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1995), p. 56
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 238 and 467
“After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing any more whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin” - Jack Kerouac
Early prints of this image are rare. No other early print is believed to have come to auction in more than two decades.
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