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

'Paris' (Couple in a Bumper Car)

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

'Paris' (Couple in a Bumper Car)


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin,  numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1951, printed no later than 1978

image: 8¾ by 13⅜ in. (22.2 by 34 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (New York, 1972), unpaginated


Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 15


Robert Frank: Black, White, and Things (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 3


Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 89


Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), p. 86