Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Robert Frank
U. S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924-2019
U. S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas
gelatin silver print, signed and dated in ink in the margin, the photographer's archive and copyright stamps, with credit, date, and annotations in pencil and ink, on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1955, printed in the 1970s
image: 13⅛ by 8½ in. (33.3 by 21.6 cm.)
frame: 21 by 17 in. (53.3 by 43.2 cm.)
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2009
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 83
'Books of the Year,' Photography Annual 1961, p. 198
John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 86
Robert Frank: The Aperture History of Photography Series (New York, 1976), p. 47
Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 346
Judith Mara Gutman, 'One-Shot Hero,' Connoisseur, November 1987, p. 139
Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995) frontispiece
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 115
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 311 and 483, and Contact no. 83
Confluences: Twenty Years of Photographs, People, Stories (Austin: Stephen L. Clark Gallery, 2013), unpaginated
Nicholas Dawidoff, 'Hidden America,' The New York Times Magazine, 5 July 2015, p. 47