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
'San Francisco'
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'San Francisco'
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, 1956, printed no later than 1978
image: 13⅜ by 8⅞ in. (34 by 22.5 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
Gotthard Schuh, ‘Robert Frank,’ Camera 36, no. 8, August 1957, p. 356
The Americans, no. 72
Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (New York, 1972), unpaginated
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 43
Robert Frank,The Lines of My Hand (Zurich, 1989), unpaginated
Robert Enright, ‘An Interview with Robert Frank: Frank Speaking,’ Border Crossings, Vol. 16, No. 4, November 1997, p. 27
Denise Miller, et al, Photography’s Multiple Roles: Art, Document, Market, Science (Chicago: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998), p. 10
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 113
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 5
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 297, 480, and 481, and Contact no. 72
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 81
Maurice Berger, 'Lens: Robert Frank, Telling It Like It Was,' The New York Times, 15 January 2015
Robert Frank, Fotografías, libros y películas (Valencia: Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, 2017), p. 10
'The picture of the black couple in The Americans, I said that’s my favorite picture. It’s my favorite picture because, to me, it really expressed a lot of different things, but also, it expressed how it feels to be a photographer and suddenly be confronted with that look of ‘You bastard, what are you doing!’'
-Robert Frank (Looking In, pp. 130-131)