50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Robert Frank
'Family U. S. 90' (En Route to Del Rio)
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:04 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924-2019
'Family U. S. 90' (En Route to Del Rio)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated '1956' in ink on the image, framed, 1955, printed in the 1950s or possibly early 1960s
image: 13 ½ by 9 ¼ in. (34.3 by 23.5 cm.)
frame: 22 by 17 ¼ in. (55.9 by 43.8 cm.)
Collection of Kaspar Fleischmann
Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zürich, 1985
Private American Collection
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1997, Stephen L. Clarke as agent
'Books of the Year,' Photography Annual 1961, p. 198
John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 86
Robert Frank: The Aperture History of Photography Series (New York, 1976), p. 47
Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 346
Judith Mara Gutman, 'One-Shot Hero,' Connoisseur, November 1987, p. 139
Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995) frontispiece
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 115
Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 311 and 483, and Contact no. 83
Confluences: Twenty Years of Photographs, People, Stories (Austin: Stephen L. Clark Gallery, 2013), unpaginated
Nicholas Dawidoff, 'Hidden America,' The New York Times Magazine, 5 July 2015, p. 47