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Robert Frank

'Mississippi - Near Baton Rouge' (Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

Auction Closed

February 22, 08:37 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

'Mississippi - Near Baton Rouge' (Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana)


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated '1956' in ink in the margin, numerical notations in pencil and circular label with annotations in ink on the reverse, 1955, printed no later than 1978

image: 8½ by 13 in. (21.6 by 33 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer, 1978

The Americans, no. 47


Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 69


Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 200


Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 266 and 473, and Contact no. 47


Jean Dykstra, 'Poetry of the Moment,' Art & Antiques, November 2009, p. 74


Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 31