Robert Frank

signed, titled, and dated '1975' in ink in the margin, framed, a Bloom Collection label on the reverse, 1955, probably printed in the early 1970s

Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, 2003

The Americans, no. 4

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, pp. 214 and 461, and Contact no. 4

Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 15

Robert Frank (Aperture), p. 75

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, p. 35

Judith Mara Gutman, 'One-Shot Hero,' Connoisseur, November 1987, p. 138

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 178

Tom E. Hinson, The Cleveland Museum: Catalogue of Photography, p. 168

Sarah Boxer, 'An Untamable Outsider Who Speaks in Riddles,' The New York Times, 26 August 2002, p. E5

Robert Frank: Story Lines, frontispiece 3

Michael Shelden, 'Melancholy and Menace,' Telegraph Magazine, 3 May 2008, pp. 32-3

Philip Gefter, 'Snapshots from the American Road,' The New York Times, 12 December 2008, p. AR33

Philip Gefter, Photography After Frank, p. 75

This print, on heavy double-weight paper with a glossy surface, is in generally very good condition. Visible in raking light is a small deposit of retouching in the suit jacket of the central mourner. There is sunning at the periphery of the print in the margin, and, as a result, the title, signature, and date are very faded. The margin corners are bumped, and the upper margin corners are creased. There is a faint gray strip (possibly stray exposure) at the upper margin edge, and there is creasing in the lower margin. None of these issues affects the image. When examined with ultraviolet light, this print does not appear to fluoresce.
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As of this writing, it is believed that no prints of this image have previously appeared at auction.