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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 | 71 | $****** - ****** | "NYC" (Bar - New York City) |
photographs
21.9 x 33 cm (8.63 x 13 in)
gelatin silver print, reverse framed
signed, titled and dated in ink in the margin, the photographer"s copyright stamp, with credit and date "1980" in ink, and a Harry Lunn archive stamp, with title and annotations "823" and "The Americans 43" in pencil; on the; a Ruth and Jacob Bloom Collection label on the reverse
Christie"s New York, 13 April 1998, Sale 8884, Lot 345
The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection, Los Angeles
Sotheby"s New York, Robert Frank: The Americans, The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection , 17 December 2015, Sale 9249, Lot 5
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 43
LIFE Library of Photography: The Art of Photography (New York, 1971), p. 140
Robert Frank (New York: Aperture, 1976), p. 41
Sue Davis, Ainslie Ellis, et al. , Concerning Photography: Some Thoughts About Reading Photographs (London: The Photographers" Gallery, 1977) pl. 13
Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 91
Robert Frank, Robert Frank (Paris: Centre Nationale de la Photographie, 1985), pl. 42
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994) p. 185
Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 2
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank"s “The Americans” (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 262 and 472, and Contact no. 43
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
"NYC" (Bar - New York City)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated in ink in the margin, the photographer"s copyright stamp, with credit and date "1980" in ink, and a Harry Lunn archive stamp, with title and annotations "823" and "The Americans 43" in pencil, on the reverse framed, a Ruth and Jacob Bloom Collection label on the reverse
image: 8⅝ by 13 in. (21.9 by 33 cm.)
frame: 16½ by 20½ in. (41.9 by 52.1 cm.)
Executed in 1955, printed in the 1970s.
