Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Robert Frank
Butte, Montana
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:52 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
Butte, Montana
gelatin silver print, framed, 1956, possibly printed in the 1960s
image: 9 by 13 ½ in. (22.9 by 34.3 cm.)
frame: 16 by 21 in. (40.6 by 53.34 cm.)
Collection of Shirley Carter Burden
By descent through family to the present owners
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 227, 464, and 465, and Contact no. 15
Robert Frank: The Aperture History of Photography Series (Aperture, 1976), p. 63
Robert Frank: Story Lines (London, Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6
Marianne Fulton, Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America (Boston, 1988), p. 178
Peter Weiermair and Gerald Matt, Americans: The Social Landscape from 1940 until 2006, Masterpieces of American Photography (Bologna, 2006), p. 42