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Josef Sudek
Pastoral landscape
1921 (ca)
Silver bromide print
10 1/2x8 1/4 ins (26.7x21 cm) (image) 19 1/2x15 3/4 ins (49.5x38.7 cm) (mount)
Swann Galleries - New York
Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks, 19 April 2016, Lot: 54
LL/66170
Josef Sudek, "the poet of Prague," was originally a bookbinder. In 1916, he was badly injured in action during World War I, and his right arm was amputated. Soon after, he was given a camera and studied photography with the renowned Czech modernist photographer Jaromir Funke. His earliest Pictorialist pictures have a romantic quality upon which he later expanded. Later, Sudek's still lifes and garden scenes conveyed a distinctively modernist vocabulary as well as a sense of intimate longing.
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