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

'Rodeo, Detroit'

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

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Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

'Rodeo, Detroit'


oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1955, printed no later than 1978

image: 12½ by 19¾ in. (31.8 by 50.2 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

The Americans, no. 5


Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 14


Robert Frank (New York, 1976) p. 59


Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 53


Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 5 


Charlie LeDuff, 'Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey,' Vanity Fair, April 2008, p. 177


Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 215, 461, and 467, and Contact no. 5


Philip Gefter, Photography After Frank (Aperture, 2009), p. 75


Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, Süddeutschen Zeitung (Robert Frank, Books and Films, 1947-2016) (Göttingen, 2016) p. 14