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On the Road: Photographs by Robert Frank from the Collection of Arthur S. Penn
On the Road: Photographs by Robert Frank from the Collection of Arthur S. Penn
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Robert Frank
'Cemetary' [sic] (Chinese Cemetery—San Francisco)
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'Cemetary' [sic] (Chinese Cemetery—San Francisco)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'San Francisco' in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1956, probably printed in the late 1950s
image: 12⅞ by 8½ in. (32.7 by 21.6 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 57
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 61
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 1
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 279, 472, and 476, and Contact no. 57