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Robert Frank

Café, Beaufort, South Carolina

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Frank

1924-2019

Café, Beaufort, South Carolina

gelatin silver print, signed in ink and with credit in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1955, printed before 1962

image: 8 by 11¾ in. (20.3 by 29.9 cm.)

frame: 17 by 21 in. (43.2 by 53.3 cm.)

Christie’s New York, 25 April 2006, Sale 20093, Lot 6

Willy Rotzler, ‘Der Photograph Robert Frank,’ Du, January 1962, p. 19 (this print)

Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 22

Janet Malcolm, Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography (Boston, 1980), pl. 78

Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 90

Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), pp. 236 and 467, and Contact no. 22

Peter Galassi, Robert Frank: In America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 133

This is the actual print used for reproduction in a special issue of the Swiss magazine Du that was devoted to the work of Harry Callahan and Robert Frank to coincide with the January 1962 opening of their exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.