Robert Frank - Photographs New York Monday, July 13, 2020 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago
    Sotheby's, New York, 14 April 1992, lot 459

  • Literature

    The Americans, no. 71
    Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, pp. 296, 467, Contact no. 71

  • Artist Biography

    Robert Frank

    Swiss • 1924

    As one of the leading visionaries of mid-century American photography, Robert Frank has created an indelible body of work, rich in insight and poignant in foresight. In his famed series The Americans, Frank travelled the United States, capturing the parade of characters, hierarchies and imbalances that conveyed his view of the great American social landscape.

    Frank broke the mold of what was considered successful documentary photography with his "snapshot aesthetic." It is Frank's portrayal of the United States through grit and grain that once brought his work to the apex of criticism, but has now come to define the art of documentary photography.

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Chattanooga, Tennessee

1955
Gelatin silver print, printed 1977.
8 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (21 x 29.2 cm)
Signed and dated in ink in the margin; 'Robert Frank Archive' stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $32,500

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Photographs

New York Auction 13 July 2020