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
'San Francisco' (Cafeteria)
Auction Closed
February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'San Francisco' (Cafeteria)
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: 12¾ by 8½ in. (32.4 by 21.6 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 68
Drew Johnson, Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present (New York, 2001), p. 228
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 3
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 293, 479, and 480, and Contact no. 68