Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

Josef Koudelka

Jarabina

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Josef Koudelka

B. 1938

Jarabina

gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, framed, a Robert Koch Gallery label on the reverse, 1963, probably printed in the 1970s

image: 9¼ by 14¼ in. (23.5 by 36.2 cm.)

frame: 18⅞ by 22⅞ in. (47.9 by 58.1 cm.)

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, 2006

John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 203

Josef Koudelka, Gypsies (Aperture, 1975), unpaginated

Vladimir Birgus, et. al., Czech Photography of the 20th Century: A Guide (Prague, 2005), p. 87

Josef Koudelka (Aperture, 2006), p. 57

Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), p. 34

'The pattern and texture of his pictures form the silent equivalent of an epic drama.'

John Szarkowski