ROBERT FRANK (* 1924) ‘Paris and the chairs, etc.’, 1949

Vintage silver print 13 x 25,2 cm (5.1 x 9.9 in) Signed, titled and dated (print date “1951”) by the photographer in ink on the reverse PROVENANCE Sotheby's New York, Lot 41, 15.10.2008 Houk Friedman Gallery, New York LITERATURE Tom Maloney (ed. ) U. S. Camera Annual 1951 (New York, 1950), p. 142; Speaking of Pictures: A Photographer in Paris Finds Chairs Everywhere, Life, 21 May 1951, pp. 26-28; Robert Frank, Black White and Things, Washington 1994, p. 20; Robert Frank, Paris, Göttingen 2008, unpaginated (variant cropping); Sarah Greenough (ed.), Looking in. Robert Frank's The Americans, Göttingen 2009, p. 101.