SUDEK JOSEF (1896 1976) Still life (in the darkroom)

Sale 2115 - Lot 373

Price Realized: $ 20,400

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000

SUDEK, JOSEF (1896-1976)
Still life (in the darkroom). Pigment print, 6x9 inches (15.2x22.8 cm.), with Sudek's signature and date, in pencil, on recto and Sudek's penciled notations on verso along with "Ubertragungspapier, glatt mit gelblichem Ten." 1952

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Josef Sudek, The Pigment Prints, 1947-1954, 52.

The print was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, in January-March 1994.

Josef Sudek (1896-1975 is celebrated for the luminous landscapes and still lifes he created over a forty year period. He initially set out to be a bookbinder but, after being injured in combat during the first World War and losing his right arm, he promptly shifted vocations.

As a young artist Sudek was influenced by the romantic Czech landscape painting of the turn-of-the-century. To best replicate the soft and subtle tones of these works, in the 1920s, he briefly utilized a photographic technique known as pigment printing.

For Sudek the choice of technique was decisive. The pigment prints, each of which is unique, reveal a painterly approach to photography in which sensitivity to light and shade are masterfully rendered. The result is a haunting lyricism that amplifies photographic expression as we know it.