Robert Frank - Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago New York Wednesday, October 1, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gift of Sherry and Alan Koppel, 1984

  • Literature

    Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, pp. 305 and 482, Contact Sheet #79
    Scalo, The Americas, pl. 79

  • 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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Chicago

1956
Gelatin silver print, printed 1977.
13 3/8 x 9 in. (34 x 22.9 cm)
Signed, titled and dated in ink in the margin; 'Robert Frank Archive' stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $30,000

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Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

New York Auction 1 October