Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Tulip, Paris
Lot closes
October 21, 06:25 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Starting Bid
22,000 USD
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Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
Tulip, Paris
a Museum of Modern Art exhibition label (on the reverse)
large-format gelatin silver print, mounted
26⅝ by 16⅝ in.
52.4 by 42.2 cm.
Executed in 1950, printed in 1962.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com.
Gift of the photographer in 1962 to the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Harry Callahan and Robert Frank, January - April 1962
The Lines of My Hand, New York, 1989, illustrated
Robert Frank: Black White and Things, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1994, no. 21, illustrated
Robert Frank: Storylines, London: Tate Modern, 2004, p. 41, illustrated
Ute Eskildsen, Robert Frank: Paris, Essen, Museum Folkwang, 2008, illustrated
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009, no. 46, p. 103, illustrated
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