ROBERT FRANK (1924–2019)

Lot 114
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ID 949919
Lot 114 | ROBERT FRANK (1924–2019)
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ROBERT FRANK (1924–2019)

Covered Car, Long Beach, California, 1955-1956

gelatin silver print, printed c. 1964

annotated on affixed label (margin); credited, inscribed and variously annotated in pencil (verso)

image: 8 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (21.5 x 32 cm.)

sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.5 cm.)





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by photographer and editor Allan Porter, Lucerne;

Private Collector, Germany;

Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago;

acquired from the above by the late owner, 2002.



Literature

Robert Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, Paris, 1958, no. 34, p. 73.

Robert Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, New York, 1959, no. 34, n.p., and all subsequent editions.

Manuel Gasser and Willy Rotzler, 'Robert Frank,' Du, vol. 22, no. 1, January 1962, p. 15.

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, p. 187.

Sarah Greenough and Alexander Stuart, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, p. 250, expanded edition.



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