ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)

Platte River, Tennessee, 1959

Details

ROBERT FRANK (b. 1924)
Platte River, Tennessee, 1959
gelatin silver print
signed in ink (in the margin); annotated in Grace Mayer's hand in pencil and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Publicity Department stamp (on the verso)
12½ x 8½in. (31.7 x 21.5cm.)

Provenance

With Pace Wildenstein MacGill, New York

Literature

Deschin, 'Two-Man Exhibit: Photographs by Callahan and Frank at Museum of Modern Art,' New York Times, 4 February 1962, sect. 2, p. 21; Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Yugensha, 1972, p. 76; Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Lustrum Press, 1972, n.p.

Lot Essay

Jack Kerouac wrote the following on a post card to his friend Robert Frank, 'Dear Robert, That photo you sent me of a guy looking over his cow on the Platte River is to me a photo of a man recognizing his own mind's essence, no matter what.' Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Yugensha, 1972, p. 76

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