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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 10, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 31 | $****** - ****** | "Pablo Mary and Andrea in Texas" (U.S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas) |
photographs
35.2 x 27.9 cm (13.88 x 11 in)
gelatin silver print
signed, titled and dated "1955" in ink, and with a small label annotated ".51" and "pg. 171" in the margin
Collection of Judith Alexander, Atlanta
By bequest to The Judith Alexander Foundation, 2004
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 83
"Books of the Year," Photography Annual 1961 , p. 198
John Szarkowski, The Photographer"s Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 86
Robert Frank: The Aperture History of Photography Series (New York, 1976), p. 47
Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 346
Judith Mara Gutman, "One-Shot Hero," Connoisseur , November 1987, p. 139
Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995) frontispiece
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), p. 115
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank"s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 311 and 483, and Contact no. 83
Confluences: Twenty Years of Photographs, People, Stories (Austin: Stephen L. Clark Gallery, 2013), unpaginated
Nicholas Dawidoff, "Hidden America," The New York Times Magazine , 5 July 2015, p. 47
The Grain of the Present (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017), p. 36
Robert Frank
1924-2019
"Pablo Mary and Andrea in Texas" (U.S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated "1955" in ink, and with a small label annotated ".51" and "pg. 171" in the margin
image: 13½ by 9¼ in. (34.3 by 23.5 cm.)
sheet: 13⅞ by 11 in. (35.2 by 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1955, printed in the 1960s.
