ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)

London (Belsize Crescent), 1951-52

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Price Realized

$72,000 (Set Currency)

Estimate

$25,000 - $35,000

Sale Information

Sale 1502 —
PHOTOGRAPHS
26 April 2005
New York, Rockefeller Plaza

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Lot Description

ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)
London (Belsize Crescent), 1951-52
gelatin silver print, printed before September 1966
8 1/8 x 12 1/8in. (20.6 x 30.8cm.)

Provenance

From the artist to Sol Mednick;
Donated to the Philadelphia College of Art, 1966;
Christie's East, November 8, 1983, lot 105;
to a Private Collection, New York

Pre-Lot Text

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Literature

Robert Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Yugensha, 1972, p. 51;
Greenough and Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1994, p. 8; and Brookman, Robert Frank: London/Wales, Scalo, 2003, p. 15 and pp. 10-11 (contact sheet).

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Lot Notes

This haunting evocation of a girl running down a London street, away from a gaping hearse door that frames a garbage collector quietly making his rounds like the grim reaper, is one of the most important images that Robert Frank made before The Americans. The present lot was printed in the early to mid-1960s and mounted on crescent board as an exhibition print. Sol Mednick, a photographer and teacher at the Philadelphia College of Art, donated this print to the institution in 1966 which in 1983 deaccessioned it.

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