Live Auction 2076Important Photographs From a Private American Collection
Robert Frank (b. 1924)
Lot 24

Robert Frank (b. 1924)

Caerau, Wales, 1953

Closed17 October 2007

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USD 115,000

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Robert Frank (b. 1924)
Caerau, Wales, 1953
gelatin silver print
signed and dedicated 'For Paul Katz - Mabou 1976' in ink (on the recto); The Museum of Modern Art exhibition label affixed (on the reverse of the masonite flush-mount)
9 1/8 x 13¾in. (23 x 34.8cm.)

Specialist note

This hauntingly beautiful and extremely rare mounted print was included in the 'Post-War European Photography' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1953 - an important forerunner to the influential 1955 exhibition 'The Family of Man.'