Robert Frank
Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Lot closes
October 23, 06:55 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Starting Bid
16,000 USD
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Robert Frank
1914 - 2019
Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
gelatin silver print, signed and dated in ink in the margin, the photographer’s copyright stamp, with credit and date ‘1979’ in ink, and a Harry Lunn Archive stamp, with title and annotations ‘47' and ‘644’ in pencil, on the reverse
image: 8⅛ by 12⅝ in. (20.6 by 32.1 cm.)
Executed in 1955, printed no later than 1977.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection (acquired from the above circa 1977)
By descent to the present owner
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958) no. 47
Robert Frank (New York, 1976), p. 69
Sarah Greenough, Sarah and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994), p. 200
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 266 and 473, and Contact no. 47
Jean Dykstra, 'Poetry of the Moment,' Art & Antiques, November 2009, p. 74
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank in America (Göttingen, 2014), p. 31
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