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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Robert Frank

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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Lot Details

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