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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 25, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation | 40 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | New Orleans' (Canal Street) |
photographs
24.1 x 34.3 cm (9.5 x 13.5 in)
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated "1956" in ink in the margin, annotation by Grace Mayer in pencil, and a The Museum of Modern Art Publicity Department stamp on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse
Christie"s, New York, Important Photographs from a Private American Collection , 17 October 2007, Sale 2076, Lot 17
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2007
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 (Tucson: 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
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
"New Orleans" (Canal Street)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated "1956" in ink in the margin, annotation by Grace Mayer in pencil, and a The Museum of Modern Art Publicity Department stamp on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1955, probably printed in the late 1950s or early 1960s
image: 9½ by 13½ in. (24.1 by 34.3 cm.)
frame: 16 by 21 in. (40.6 by 53.3 cm.)
