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ROBERT FRANK (1924–2019)
Approaching New York Harbor, 1952
gelatin silver print
signed in ink (margin); annotated ‘lines of my hand 52 \ one day before arriving in New York’ in pencil in photographer’s archive credit stamp (verso)
image: 10 ½ x 16 in. (26.6 x 40.6 cm.)
sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40. 6 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, April 26, 1990, lot 394 A;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Robert Frank, Aperture, Millerton, 1976, p. 23.
Robert Frank and Walter Keller, Robert Frank: The Lines Of My Hand, Pantheon Books, New York, 1989, n.p.
Robert Frank, Robert Frank: The Lines Of My Hand, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2017, n.p.
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