Robert Frank

'Pablo Mary and Andrea in Texas' (U.S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas)

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October 17, 04:31 PM GMT

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200,000 - 300,000 USD

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150,000 USD

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Robert Frank

1924-2019

'Pablo Mary and Andrea in Texas' (U.S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas)

gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated '1955' in ink, and with a small label annotated '.51' and 'pg. 171' in the margin

image: 13½ by 9¼ in. (34.3 by 23.5 cm.)

sheet: 13⅞ by 11 in. (35.2 by 27.9 cm.)

Executed in 1955, printed in the 1960s.

Collection of Judith Alexander, Atlanta

By bequest to The Judith Alexander Foundation, 2004

Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 83

'Books of the Year,' Photography Annual 1961, p. 198

John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 86

Robert Frank: The Aperture History of Photography Series (New York, 1976), p. 47

Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 346

Judith Mara Gutman, 'One-Shot Hero,' Connoisseur, November 1987, p. 139

Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995) frontispiece

Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 115

Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 311 and 483, and Contact no. 83

Confluences: Twenty Years of Photographs, People, Stories (Austin: Stephen L. Clark Gallery, 2013), unpaginated

Nicholas Dawidoff, 'Hidden America,' The New York Times Magazine, 5 July 2015, p. 47

The Grain of the Present (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017), p. 36