Swann Galleries - Photographs & Photobooks - Sale 2426, October 25, 2016

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250 ● ROBERT FRANK (1924- )
Political Rally, Chicago. Silver print, the image measuring 113/8x7 1/4 inches (28.9x18.4 cm.), the sheet
14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Frank’s signature and negative date, in ink, on recto, and with
the Robert Frank Archive hand stamp, with the numeric notations, in pencil, and the copyright
hand stamp with Frank’s credit and the date 1979, in ink, on verso. 1956; printed 1970s
[60,000/90,000]
From Sotheby’s, NewYork, NewYork, on November 12, 1985 (lot 253).
Frank, The Americans (Grove Press), no. 58.
Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (National Gallery of Art/Scalo), pp. 281 and
476, and Contact no. 58.
“A Pageant Portfolio: One Man’s U.S.A.,” Pageant, April 1958, p. 27.
Evergreen Review, November/December 1960, cover.
Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day (The Museum of Modern Art,
NewYork), p. 200.
Szarkowski, Looking At Photographs (The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork), pp. 176-77.
Wurlitzer, Robert Frank (Aperture), frontispiece.
Gee, Photography of the Fifties:AnAmerican Perspective (Center for Creative Photography), cover and p. 156.
Cooper, Robert Frank and American Politics (Akron Art Museum), p. 18.
Tucker and Brookman, Robert Frank: NewYork to Nova Scotia (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), p. 33.
Kismaric, American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993 (Museum of Modern Art,NewYork), p. 151.
Greenough and Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (National Gallery of Art), pp. 129 and 180.
Miller, et al., Photography’s Multiple Roles:Art Document, Market, Science (Museum of Contemporary
Photography), p. 10.