Robert Frank - Photographs New York Thursday, October 7, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Kicken, Berlin
    Phillips, New York, Photographs, 8 October 2015, Lot 136

  • Literature

    The Americans, no. 27 (variant)
    Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, pl. 27

  • 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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Metropolitan Life Insurance Building - New York City

1955
Gelatin silver print, probably printed circa 1960.
12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (32.4 x 21.6 cm)
Signed, dated and annotated 'Twenty-Third Street, Manhattan' in ink in the margin; signed in ink within the copyright credit stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Contact Specialist

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Photographs

New York Auction 7 October 2021