Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale

Robert Frank

'Charleston S. C.'

Auction Closed

May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924-2019

'Charleston S. C.'

oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, framed, Kicken Berlin gallery, Richard Pare collection, and The Art of Photography: 150 Years exhibition labels on the reverse, 1955, probably printed in the 1950s or early 1960s

image: 16 by 23 in. (40.6 by 58.4 cm.)

frame: 26 by 32¼ in. (66 by 81.9 cm.)

Collection of Richard Pare

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Kicken Berlin, 2005

The Grain of the Present (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017), p. 36 (this print)

Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), cat. no. 321 (this print)

Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 13

'Robert Frank,' Aperture, 1961, p. 7

Willy Rotzler, 'Der Photograph Robert Frank,' Du, January 1962, p. 17

LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York, 1972), p. 171

Marianne Fulton, Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America (New York, 1988), p. 178

Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography, 1839-1989 (New Haven, 1989), pl. 321

Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), pp. 173 and 197

Tom E. Hinson, The Cleveland Museum: Catalogue of Photography (Cleveland, 1997), p. 166

Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6

Charlie LeDuff, 'Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey,' Vanity Fair, April 2008, p. 167

Peter Galassi, Robert Frank: In America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 132

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. xiii, 225, 463, and 465, and contact no. 13

Jeff Rosenheim, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020), p. 58

Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine (New York: The Jewish Museum, 2020), p. 98

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Art of Photography: 150 Years, 1839-1989, February – April 1989, and traveling thereafter to:
Canberra, Australian National Gallery, June – August 1989
London, Royal Academy of Arts, September – December 1989

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition, March – June 2010

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022