Robert Frank
U.S. 91, Leaving Blackfoot, Idaho
Auction Closed
May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
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Robert Frank
1924-2019
U.S. 91, Leaving Blackfoot, Idaho
gelatin silver print, with the photographer's credit, date, title, and annotation 'Please return to the Museum of Modern Art' in Grace Mayer's hand in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1956, printed before 1968
image: 9 by 13½ in. (22.9 by 34.3 cm.)
frame: 17 by 21 in. (43.2 by 53.3 cm.)
Michael Shapiro Photography, San Francisco, 2005
The Americans, no. 32
Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), p. 45
Sarah Greenough, Philip Brookman, et al., Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 186
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 148 and 469, Contact Sheet 32
Philip Gefter, Photography After Frank (New York, 2009), p. 74
‘. . .Robert picks up two hitch hikers and lets them drive the car, at night, and people look at their two faces looking grimly onward into the night. . .and people say “Ooo how mean they look” but all they want to do is arrow on down that road and get back to the sack. . .’
Jack Kerouac, The Americans (New York, 1958), introduction
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