Robert Frank
Selected Images of New York
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:45 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
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Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
Selected Images of New York
2 gelatin silver prints, comprising N. Y. C. for A. B. and New York, 1947, probably printed in the 1940s or early 1950s (2)
images: 12 by 6 ¼ in. (30.5 by 15.9 cm.) and 13½ by 9¼ in. (34.3 by 23.5 cm.)
By descent through family
Tom Maloney, ed., ‘U.S. Camera Annual 1949’ (New York, 1948), p. 149
The Lines of My Hand (New York, 1989), unpaginated
Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 28
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), p. 20
Jane Livingston, The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963 (New York, 1992), p. 81
Mason Klein, Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine (New York: Jewish Museum, 2020), p. 118
The photographs in Lots 105, 106, and 107 come originally from the collection of Roger Brunschwig, Robert Frank’s cousin. Cousins Roger and Claude Brunschwig sailed to America in November 1946, and Frank – disillusioned with life in his native Switzerland following World War II – joined them in New York City in March 1947. The cousins’ remembrances pepper R J Smith’s recent biography American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank (2017).
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