Lot 3
  • 3

Robert Frank b. 1924

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Frank
  • 'new orleans' (trolley)
signed, titled, and dated by the photographer in ink in the margin, matted, framed, 1955, printed circa 1986

Provenance

Gift of the photographer to the present owner, circa 1986

Literature

Other prints of this image:

The Americans: Photographs by Robert Frank (New York, 1986), cover and p. 45

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 196

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 41

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (The Museum of Modern Art, 2000, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 137

Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 109

Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 357

Condition

This print, on cool white semi-glossy paper, is in generally excellent condition.
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