Robert Frank
'San Gennaro' (Medals, New York)
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February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'San Gennaro' (Medals, New York)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated '1948', and annotated 'NYC' in ink on the image, numerical notations in pencil on the reverse, 1951, probably printed in the 1950s
image: 18 by 12¼ in. (45.7 by 31.1 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 35
Robert Frank: Black, White , and Things (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), pl. 23
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), p. 105
Robert Frank met fellow photographer Louis Faurer while working at Harper’s Bazaar in 1947. Both recent transplants to New York (Faurer from Philadelphia and Frank from Switzerland), they became close friends and accompanied each other on shoots throughout New York, attracted to the energy and activity of the city. The 11-day celebration of the Feast of San Gennaro in New York’s Little Italy neighborhood drew their attention, and working nimbly with hand-held cameras they took many photographs there, including the portrait of Frank and his wife Mary in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The National Gallery of Art.
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