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ROBERT FRANK (1924–2019)
Chicago, 1956
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed and dated in ink (margin); signed and dated in ink within copyright credit stamp, titled and dated in pencil within Harry Lunn archive stamp (verso)
image: 1338 x 9 in. (34 x 22.9 cm.)
sheet: 1378 x 11 in. (35.2 x 27.9 cm.)
Provenance
Christie's East, November 10, 1981, Lot 332;
Private Collection;
Christie's, New York, October 6, 1998, Lot 328;
Sotheby's, New York, Robert Frank: The Americans The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection, December 17, 2015 Lot 19;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Robert Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, Paris, 1958, no. 79.
Robert Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, 1959, no. 79, n.p. and in all subsequent editions.
Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1984, p. 89.
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition, National Gallery of Art in association with Steidl, Washington D.C, 2009, pp. 305, 482.
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank: In America, Steidl, Gottingen, 2014, p. 152
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