signed, titled, and dated by the photographer in ink in the margin, matted, 1955, printed in 1978

Acquired by the present owner from the photogr🐻apher

Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), p. 105

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), p. 27

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven, 1981, in❀ conjunction with the exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery), p. 59

Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Mode♚rn, 2004, in conjunction ꧑with the exhibition), p. 207

Life Library of Photography: Documentary Photography (New York, 1972), p. 170

This print, on double-weight paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. There is a semi-circular sharp handing crease at the center of the upper margin edge.
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Robert Frank said about this photograph, 'What moved me was that, against the background of that hideous city building, there was the little vase with a flower.  The combination of that big gray block of cement and those recurring images of gas stations and the flower. . .' (Documentary Photography, p. 170)