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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 22, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | On the Road: Photographs by Robert Frank from the Collection of Arthur S. Penn | 52 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | "Canal St. N. Orleans" (Canal Street-New Orleans) |
photographs
18.4 x 27.9 cm (7.25 x 11 in)
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated "1956" in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans , no. 19
Artscanada, “An inquiry into the aesthetics of photography”, Society for Art Publications , December 1974, p. 89
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 81
Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 55
Helen Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective , Center for Creative Photography (Tuscon: University of Arizona, 1983), p. 157
Robert Frank (New York, 1985), pl. 35
Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), pl. 322
Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 172
Tom E. Hinson, The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Photography (The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996), p. 169
Michael Shelden, "Melancholy and Menace," Telegraph Magazine , 3 May 2008, pp. 30-31
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank"s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 233 and 466, and Contact no. 19
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 66
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
"Canal St. N. Orleans" (Canal Street-New Orleans)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated "1956" in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1955, printed no later than 1978
image: 7¼ by 11 in. (18.4 by 27.9 cm.)
