Robert Frank

signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, annotations in pencil on the reverse, 1955, printed in 1975

Acquired from Light Gallery, New York, circa 1975

Other prints of this image:

The Americans:  Photographs by Robert Frank (New York, 1986), p. 85

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), first frontispiece, pp. 256 and 471, Contact #38

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 58

This slightly warm-toned print is in generally very good condition. When examined in raking light, 2 sharp creases that appear to break the emulsion somewhat are visible in the upper central portion of the print and in the upper right margin corner. The latter crease extends into the print about an inch. On the reverse, there are two annotations in pencil: 'NR FRA-2' (circled) and 'BBA.'
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In addition to the print offered here, it is believed that only four prints of this image have been offered at auction—in these rooms on 15 February 2006, Important Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including Works from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, (Sale 8165, Lot 102), on 30 March 2009, (Sale 8575, Lot 146), and on 13 April 2010 (Sale 8624, Lot 164); and at Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, 26 April 2003, The Seagram Collection of Photographs (Sale 40203, Lot 132).