Robert Frank
'City Hall - Los Angeles' (St. Francis, Gas Station, and City Hall—Los Angeles)
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February 22, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'City Hall - Los Angeles' (St. Francis, Gas Station, and City Hall—Los Angeles)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, credit and copyright in ink, numerical notations in pencil, and a rectangular label with annotations in pencil on the reverse, 1956, printed no later than 1977
image: 8⅜ by 12⅞ in. (21.3 by 32.7 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, 1978
The Americans, no. 48
LIFE Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York, 1972), p. 170
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 27
Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 59
Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 88
Robert Frank (New York, 1985), pl. 39
Philip Brookman and Vicente Todolí, Robert Frank: Storylines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), p. 207
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. ix, 267, and 474, and Contact no. 48
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 123
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