Oct 15, 2007 - Sale 2124

Sale 2124 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 12,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
SUDEK, JOSEF (1896-1976)
Untitled (interior with two men) * Untitled (sun draped interior). Together, 2 photographs. Silver prints, each measuring 3 1/2x3 1/4 inches (8.9x8.3 cm.), one with Sudek's signature and date (1922), in pencil, on recto; each is framed. 1922-27
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From the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA; to a private collector.


Josef Sudek 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 painting, particularly the romantic Czech landscape painting of the turn-of-the-century.

Between 1922 and 1927 Sudek shot a series of lyrical photographs of patients at the Invalid War Veterans' Hospital and Home, in Prague. The pictures radiate the unique qualilty of light associated with Sudek's poetic studies. The fact that Sudek himself lost an arm in combat and probably spent time in the hospital recuperating, makes this series particularly poignant..