Robert Frank

oversized, signed, titled, and dated '1956' in ink on the image, numerical notations in pencil and a circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, framed, 1955, printed in the late 1960s or early 1970s

Danziger Gallery, New York, 2012

The Americans, no. 33

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, pp. 249 and 470, and Contact no. 33

'The Highway: Four Photographs by Robert Frank,' Current, November 1960, p. 34

Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 16

Robert Frank (Aperture), p. 83

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, p. 51

Michel Frizot, ed., A New History of Photography, p. 645 

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, pl. 143

Robert Frank: Story Lines, frontispiece 4

This print, on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface, is in generally very good condition. The negative sprocket holes appear at the bottom of the image. There are very thin margins at the left and right edges. There is a small, pale brown area of discoloration in the upper left quadrant. The margin corners are slightly bumped. A diagonal crease at the upper right margin corner does not appear to break the emulsion but does slightly intrude upon the image. A few crescent-shaped handling creases that do not appear to break the emulsion are visible under raking light in the margins. The reverse of the print is clean, with a few pale scuffs and fingerprints. The following is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse: '9-223' and '379.' A small circular green label on the reverse bears the following inscription in ink: 'PK A-119 (V).' It is believed that only 3 other prints of this image have previously been offered at auction.
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