Robert Frank

signed in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil on the reverse, framed, Bloom Collection and Pace Wildenstein MacGill labels on the reverse, 1956, printed later

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1998

The Americans, no. 15

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, pp. 227, 464, and 465, and Contact no. 15

Robert Frank (Aperture), p. 63

Marianne Fulton, Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America, p. 178

Robert Frank: Story Lines, frontispiece 6 

Peter Weiermair, ed., Americans, 1940-2006—America: The Social Landscape from 1940 until 2006, Masterpieces of American Photography, p. 42

This print, on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface, is in generally very good to excellent condition. The image is printed full frame with slim margins. There are a few scattered, soft crescent-shaped handling creases and very faint vertical creases radiating from the lower left corner that appear to break the emulsion visible under raking light. There is a very thin, dark band along the left side of the margin edge. The reverse of the print is clean. The following is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse: 'RF.A. 015.4' and '1503-I.' It is believed that only 3, possibly 4, other prints of this image have previously been offered at auction.
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