Robert Frank — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

Robert Frank (1924-2019); St. Petersburg, Florida;

Mar 2026

Bonhams

$3,800

Feb 2026

Bonhams

Robert Frank (1924-2019); Peep Show (Times Square, New York City);

$2,600

Feb 2026

Sotheby's

Untitled (Paris), 1949

'Pablo Mary and Andrea in Texas' (U.S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas), 1955

Oct 2025

Sotheby's

'San Francisco', 1956

$15,000

Apr 2025

Sotheby's

$150,000

'New Mexico' (U. S. 285), 1955

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Cadillac Showroom, NYC, 1955

Sotheby's

'NYC Yom Kippur', 1955

Street line, New York (34th Street), 1948

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Christie's

U.S. 285, New Mexico, 1956

Christie's

Christie's

Newburgh, New York, 1954

$52,920

View from hotel window - Butte, Montana, 1956

Christie's

$30,240

Charleston, South Carolina, 1955

Christie's

'New Orleans' (Canal Street)

Feb 2024

Sotheby's

$12,065

Oct 2023

Christie's

Political Rally, Chicago, 1956

Covered Car, Long Beach, California, 1955-1956

Christie's

$23,940

Café, Beaufort, South Carolina

Sotheby's

$22,860

U.S. 91, Leaving Blackfoot, Idaho

Sotheby's

$20,320

Car Accident - U.S. 66, Between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona

Sotheby's

$19,050

'Denver' (Richard and Pat Nixon)

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

For Sale 6

Robert Klein Gallery · Artsy

Contact sheet #1, 1958

On hold

Photo-lithograph

KIM YOUNG SEOB PHOTOGALLERY · Artsy

Movie Premiere, Hollywood, 1956

For sale

Gelatin Silver Print

Howard Greenberg Gallery · Artsy

Tattoo Parlor, 8th Avenue, New York City, 1958

Inquire about availability

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1958

Howard Greenberg Gallery · Artsy

Men's room, railway station - Memphis, Tennessee, 1955

Inquire about availability

Gelatin silver print; printed 1970s

Laurence Miller Gallery · 1stDibs

Hollywood

$25,000

Huxley-Parlour · 1stDibs

Robert Frank, Paris, 1951, Black and White Photography, Tulips

$61,735

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Market1,477 auction results

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$512 – $953K

264 of 444 photographs lots with prices

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$42.7K

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$16.5K

264 priced photographs lots

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Apr 2026 · $38.1K

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Photographs: $16.5K medianPaintings: — medianWorks on paper: — medianUnclassified lots: $20.2K medianEditioned photos: $18.8K medianBooks/portfolios: $3.7K medianPosters/ephemera: $504 medianDecorative/non-core: — median

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Prizes & Awards1

Hasselblad Award

Winner 1996

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Publications8

Monograph 2

Robert Frank : Trolley--New Orleans Author

MoMA Publications · 2020

Valencia 1952 Author

Steidl · 2013

Exhibition Catalog 6

Süddeutsche Zeitung Author

Steidl · 2017

Robert Frank Author

Aperture · 2014

FotoSkulptur: Die Fotografie der Skulptur 1839 bis heute

Hatje Cantz · 2010

Frank Films Author

Steidl · 2009

Cruel and Tender: Zärtlich und grausam - Fotografie und das Wirkliche

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Open City: Street Photographs since 1950

Hatje Cantz · 2001

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Past Exhibitions14

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#2,606 ATLAS Gallery

Legacy of Light: 200 Years of Photography

Paul Strand, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Elliott Erwitt, Mario Giacomelli, Dorothea Lange, Daido Moriyama, Steve Schapiro, Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, Patrick Demarchelier, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Marc Riboud, W. Eugene Smith, Yamamoto Masao, Alexander Rodchenko, Andreas Feininger, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Tina Modotti, Jeanloup Sieff, Willy Ronis, Steve McCurry, Barry Lategan, Eve Arnold, Thomas Hoepker, Joe Rosenthal, John Dominis, David Bailey, Herbert George Ponting, Leni Riefenstahl, Alberto Korda, Lewis Morley, Rudolf Koppitz, Jürgen Schadeberg, Terence Donovan, Iain Macmillan, Cornell Capa, George Hoyningen-Huene, Harold Edgerton

49 Dorset St, London W1U 7NF, United Kingdom

Mar 27, 2026 — May 30, 2026

Robert Frank

13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Mar 28, 2018 — May 11, 2018

Albertina

Robert Frank

Albertinapl. 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

Jan 1, 2017 — Jan 1, 2018

Robert Frank — 25. October 2017 – 21. January 2018

Robert Frank From the Pennwick Foundation Collection

#2,436 Danziger Gallery

Robert Frank

952 5th Ave # 2D, New York, NY 10075, USA

Sep 20, 2012 — Oct 27, 2012

FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE

Saatchi Gallery

Cristina Alcantara, Pedro Almodóvar, Nobuyoshi Araki, Nick Archer, Gillian Ayres, Jessica Backhaus, Mandy Barker, Brendan Barry, Susan Beech, Valérie Belin, Andy Bettles, Elizabeth Blackadder, John Blakemore, Jean Baptiste Bosschaert, Faye Bridgwater, Orlanda Broom, Olga Cafiero, Ann Carrington, Rob & Nick Carter, Miguel Chevalier, Philip Colbert, Lottie Cole, Stephanie Comilang, Sharon Core, Michael Craig-Martin, Reuben Dangoor, Lia Darjes, William Darrell, Tom de Houwer, Richard de Tscharner, Elspeth Diederix, Jim Dine, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Ron van Dongen, Xuebing Du, Elaine Duigenan, Pamela Ellis Hawkes, Ruud van Empel, Joanna Epstein, Mary Fedden, Robert Frank, Anne von Freyburg, Erwan Frotin, Adam Fuss, Matthieu Gafsou, Kate Gibb, Grace Gillespie, Sky Glabush, Daniel Gordon, Maro Gorky, Roberto Greco, Jo Grogan, Anna Halm Schudel, Joanna Ham, Rose Electra Harris, Dan Hays, George Henry, Realf Heygate, Damien Hirst, Aimée Hoving, Gary Hume, Florence Hutchings, Mila Ilingina, Yinka Ilori, Michelle Jung, Nadav Kander, Heath Kane, Sandra Kantanen, Neil Kellerhouse, Rob Kesseler, Nick Knight, Kior Ko, Jan Sebastian Koch, Irene Küng, Yayoi Kusama, Wole Lagunju, Caroline Larsen, Rebecca Louise Law, David Lebe, Laura Letinsky, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Brigitte Lustenberger, Mari Mahr, Martin Maloney, Ann Mandelbaum, Tony Matelli, Margaret Mellis, Sophie Mess, Ally McIntyre, Anastasija Michailova, Andrew Millar, Banita Mistry, Carmen Mitrotta, Abelardo Morell, William Morris, Alphonse Mucha, Vik Muniz, Galina Munroe, Takashi Murakami, Winifred Nicholson, Jesse Pollock, Janet Pulcho, Stormy Pyeatte, Marc Quinn, Dan Rawlings, Marcel Rickli, Catriona Robertson, Almudena Romero, Paul Rousteau, Andrew Salgado, Frederick Sander, Viviane Sassen, Thirza Schaap, Helene Schmitz, Martin Schoeller, Megan Seiter, Amy Shelton, Ann Shelton, David Shrigley, Niki Simpson, Chieska Smith, Leonard Soldier Iheagwam, Rudolf Steiner, Holly Stevenson, Florent Stosskopf, Daniel The Gardener, Rebecca Thomas, Mimei Thompson, Miriam Tölke, Robert Walker, Tim Walker, Tom Wesselmann, Vivienne Westwood, Jo Whaley, Jess Wilson, Emma Witter, Kasia Wozniak, Nadirah Zakariya, Christina Zimpel, Victoria Zschommler, Andrew Zuckerman, Irene Kung, Leonard 'Soldier' Iheagwam

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