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ROBERT FRANK (1924-2019)
Cafeteria, San Francisco, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, titled and dated in ink (margin); signed, dated and inscribed to Edward Keating in pencil (verso)
image: 714 x 514 in. (18.4 x 13.3 cm.)
sheet: 1378 x 11 in. (35.2 x 27.9 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to Edward Keating, c. 2000s;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Robert Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, Paris, 1958, no. 69.
Robert Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, New York, 1959, no. 144, and in all subsequent editions.
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London, 2003, p. 113
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2009, pp. 293, 479, 480.
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