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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 | 51 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | "Hoboken N. J." (Parade) |
photographs
20.6 x 31.1 cm (8.13 x 12.25 in)
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated 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. 1
‘Robert Frank", Aperture 9:1 , 1961, p. 6
Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank," Du , January 1962, p. 16
John Szarkowski, The Photographer"s Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 155
Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand (Tokyo, 1972), p. 56
LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York,1972), p. 168
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), front cover
Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography: From the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 247
Marianne Fulton, Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America (New York Graphic Society, 1988), p. 177
John Szarkowski, Photography Until Now (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989), p. 258
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), pp. 111 and 175
Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 215
Lisa Phillips, The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000 (New York: Whitney Museum of Modern Art, 1999), pl. 108
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 316
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 101
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 3
Charlie LeDuff, "Robert Frank"s Unsentimental Journey," Vanity Fair , New York, April 2008, p. 165
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank"s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), cover, pp. 211 and 460, and Contact no. 1
Christian A. Peterson, Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2009), p. 89
Jean Dykstra, "Poetry of the Moment," Art & Antiques , November 2009, p. 78
David Campany, The Open Road: Photography & The American Road Trip (New York, 2014), p. 45
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 107
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
"Hoboken N. J." (Parade)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated 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: 8⅛ by 12¼ in. (20.6 by 31.1 cm.)
