Robert Frank - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Provenance

    Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 30 October 2014 – 22 March 2015

  • 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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Picnic In A Car Park, Fourth Of July

1955
Gelatin silver print, printed 1979.
8 1/2 x 13 in. (21.6 x 33 cm)
Signed in ink, 'Robert Frank Archive' and copyright credit stamps on the verso.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024