Lot Essay
A photographer is a composer of light, searching for melodies that would please the soul, that would find an expression for our feelings.
František Drtikol
František Drtikol
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Nude, 1927
Details
František Drtikol (1883-1961)
Nude, 1927
pigment print, mounted on board
copyright credit blindstamp (image); signed and dated in pencil (mount, recto); variously annotated in ink, typed exhibition label affixed (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 11 x 8 ¾ in. (28 x 22.3 cm.)
mount: 15 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (39 x 29.5 cm.)
Nude, 1927
pigment print, mounted on board
copyright credit blindstamp (image); signed and dated in pencil (mount, recto); variously annotated in ink, typed exhibition label affixed (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 11 x 8 ¾ in. (28 x 22.3 cm.)
mount: 15 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (39 x 29.5 cm.)
Provenance
Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, 2011.
Literature
Anna Fárová, František Drtikol: Etapy zivota a fotografického díla: Secese, Art deco, Abstrakce, vol. 1, Svět, Prague, 2012, ill. 198 (as Akt).
Exhibited
Béthune, Salon International d'Art Photographique, 1927.