Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
ROBERT FRANK | 'INDIANAPOLIS'
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October 1, 06:37 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ROBERT FRANK
1924-2019
'INDIANAPOLIS'
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, 1956, printed in the late 1970s or early 1980s
image: 8¾ by 12⅝ in. (22.2 by 32.1 cm.)
The photographer to Gerald Dearing
Acquired from the above, 1980s
The Americans, no. 70
Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 37
Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 5
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 295, 479 and 481, and Contact no. 70
The photographs in Lots 11 and 38 come originally from the collection of Gerald Dearing, executive producer of Frank's 1987 film Candy Mountain.