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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 | 33 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | "Arizona" (Car Accident-U. S. 66, Between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona) |
photographs
29.8 x 43.2 cm (11.75 x 17 in)
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated twice in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
Tom Maloney, ed., U. S. Camera 1958 (New York, 1958), p. 92
The Americans , no. 35
Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (Tokyo, 1972), p. 79
LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York, 1972), p. 175
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 55
Concerning Photography: Some Thoughts About Reading Photographs (London, 1977), pl. 80
Janet Malcolm, Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography (Boston, 1980), pl. 77
Jo C. Tartt, Taken: Photography and Death (Washington, D.C., 1989), pl. 47
Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 188
Christian A. Peterson, Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2009), p. 91
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank"s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 251, 470, and 471, and Contact no. 35
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 157
David Campany, The Open Road: Photography & The American Road Trip (New York, 2014), p. 49
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
"Arizona" (Car Accident-U. S. 66, Between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated twice in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1956, probably printed in the late 1950s or 1960s
image: 11¾ by 17 in. (29.9 by 43.2 cm.)
