Robert Frank - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, 5 October 1995, lot 387
    Sotheby’s, New York, 23 April 2003, lot 218

  • Literature

    Tate Modern Gallery, Robert Frank: Storylines, p. 117

  • 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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295

Coney Island, 4th of July

1958
Gelatin silver print.
11 x 7 3/8 in. (27.9 x 18.7 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin; Robert Frank Archive and copyright credit stamps on the verso.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 9 October 2024