About the Artwork
Bar - Detroit
1955, printed 1970s
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
American
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Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/8 × 13 3/4 inches (23.2 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Purchase Fund, and General Art Purchase Fund
2009.13
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed, in black pen and ink, lower right: Robert Frank
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: 3701-I Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper right: 3701-I | R.F.A.037.3
Backprinting: Agfa [double underscored, dated to the 1970s, paulmessier.com]
Provenance
until 2008, Robert Frank (New York, New York, USA);2009-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Frank, Robert. Les Americains. Paris, 1958, p. 19 (ill.).
Frank, Robert. The Americans. New York, 1978, p. 21 (ill.).
Frank, Robert, The Americans. Gottingen, Germany, 2008 (plate 5).
Greenough, Sarah and Stuart Alexander. Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans. Washington D.C. 2009, p.215 (ill.).
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Robert Frank, Bar - Detroit, 1955, printed 1970s, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Purchase Fund, and General Art Purchase Fund, 2009.13.
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