Photographs
Photographs
Robert Frank
'NYC' (Bar - New York City)
Lot closes
October 17, 05:11 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Starting Bid
20,000 USD
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Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'NYC' (Bar - New York City)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated in ink in the margin, the photographer's copyright stamp, with credit and date '1980' in ink, and a Harry Lunn archive stamp, with title and annotations '823' and 'The Americans 43' in pencil, on the reverse framed, a Ruth and Jacob Bloom Collection label on the reverse
image: 8⅝ by 13 in. (21.9 by 33 cm.)
frame: 16½ by 20½ in. (41.9 by 52.1 cm.)
Executed in 1955, printed in the 1970s.
Christie's New York, 13 April 1998, Sale 8884, Lot 345
The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection, Los Angeles
Sotheby's New York, Robert Frank: The Americans, The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection, 17 December 2015, Sale 9249, Lot 5
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 43
LIFE Library of Photography: The Art of Photography (New York, 1971), p. 140
Robert Frank (New York: Aperture, 1976), p. 41
Sue Davis, Ainslie Ellis, et al., Concerning Photography: Some Thoughts About Reading Photographs (London: The Photographers' Gallery, 1977) pl. 13
Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 91
Robert Frank, Robert Frank (Paris: Centre Nationale de la Photographie, 1985), pl. 42
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994) p. 185
Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 2
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 262 and 472, and Contact no. 43
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