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Auction archive: Lot number 263

DRTIKOL, Frantisek Zena ve Svetle [Woman in Light] Prague: E...

Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$9,584 - US$12,779
Price realised:
£7,500
ca. US$11,980
Auction archive: Lot number 263

DRTIKOL, Frantisek Zena ve Svetle [Woman in Light] Prague: E...

Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$9,584 - US$12,779
Price realised:
£7,500
ca. US$11,980
Beschreibung:

DRTIKOL, Frantisek. Zena ve Svetle . [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (very small chips at corners and light wear on the front fold).
DRTIKOL, Frantisek. Zena ve Svetle . [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (very small chips at corners and light wear on the front fold). FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A remarkable survival in this condition, wholly unrestored and among the best yet offered at auction. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' ( 101 Books ). 101 Books , pp.64-65; Books of Nudes , pp.80-1; The Open Book , pp. 94-95; The Photobook , p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book').

Auction archive: Lot number 263
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
30 November 2010, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

DRTIKOL, Frantisek. Zena ve Svetle . [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (very small chips at corners and light wear on the front fold).
DRTIKOL, Frantisek. Zena ve Svetle . [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (very small chips at corners and light wear on the front fold). FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A remarkable survival in this condition, wholly unrestored and among the best yet offered at auction. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' ( 101 Books ). 101 Books , pp.64-65; Books of Nudes , pp.80-1; The Open Book , pp. 94-95; The Photobook , p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book').

Auction archive: Lot number 263
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
30 November 2010, London, South Kensington
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