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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 1, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale | 28 | $****** - ****** | "Charleston S. C." |
photographs
40.6 x 58.4 cm (16 x 23 in)
oversized gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin
Collection of Richard Pare
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Kicken Berlin, 2005
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Art of Photography: 150 Years, 1839-1989 , February - April 1989, and traveling thereafter to:
Canberra, Australian National Gallery, June - August 1989
London, Royal Academy of Arts, September - December 1989
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition , March - June 2010
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography , July 2019 - March 2022
The Grain of the Present (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017), p. 36 (this print)
Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), cat. no. 321 (this print)
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 13
"Robert Frank," Aperture , 1961, p. 7
Willy Rotzler, "Der Photograph Robert Frank," Du , January 1962, p. 17
LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York, 1972), p. 171
Marianne Fulton, Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America (New York, 1988), p. 178
Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography, 1839-1989 (New Haven, 1989), pl. 321
Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), pp. 173 and 197
Tom E. Hinson, The Cleveland Museum: Catalogue of Photography (Cleveland, 1997), p. 166
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 6
Charlie LeDuff, "Robert Frank"s Unsentimental Journey," Vanity Fair , April 2008, p. 167
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank: In America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 132
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank"s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. xiii, 225, 463, and 465, and contact no. 13
Jeff Rosenheim, Photography"s Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020), p. 58
Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine (New York: The Jewish Museum, 2020), p. 98
Robert Frank
1924-2019
"Charleston S. C."
oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, framed, Kicken Berlin gallery, Richard Pare collection, and The Art of Photography: 150 Years exhi bition labels on the reverse, 1955, probably printed in the 1950s or early 1960s
image: 16 by 23 in. (40.6 by 58.4 cm.)
frame: 26 by 32¼ in. (66 by 81.9 cm.)
