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
'NYC Candy Store'
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February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'NYC Candy Store'
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 before 1978
image: 8⅛ by 12¼ in. (20.6 by 31.1 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 10
Helen Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, Center for Creative Photography (Tucson: University of Arizona, 1983), p. 158
Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 90
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 105
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 4
Michael Shelden, 'Melancholy and Menace,' Telegraph Magazine, 3 May 2008, p. 32
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 221 and 463, and Contact no. 10