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
'Rodeo, Detroit'
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'Rodeo, Detroit'
oversized 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, 1955, printed no later than 1978
image: 12½ by 19¾ in. (31.8 by 50.2 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 5
Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 14
Robert Frank (New York, 1976) p. 59
Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 53
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 5
Charlie LeDuff, 'Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey,' Vanity Fair, April 2008, p. 177
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 215, 461, and 467, and Contact no. 5
Philip Gefter, Photography After Frank (Aperture, 2009), p. 75
Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, Süddeutschen Zeitung (Robert Frank, Books and Films, 1947-2016) (Göttingen, 2016) p. 14