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
Robert Frank
'Chicago' (Political Rally)
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'Chicago' (Political Rally)
oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink on the image, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1956, probably printed in the late 1950s or 1960s
image: 19 by 12¾ in. (48.3 by 32.4 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 79
Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 20
Robert Frank (New York, 1976) p. 31
Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 177
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 3, p. 108
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 305 and 482, and Contact no. 79
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 122
Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, Süddeutschen Zeitung (Robert Frank, Books and Films, 1947-2016) (Göttingen, 2016) p. 29