JOSEF SUDEK

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JOSEF SUDEK

Bread and Egg

Varnished silver bromide transfer print with bronze pigment suspension. 1950. Signed in pencil in the margin and printing notations in pencil on the verso. 4 5/8 x 6 3/8in.
Literature
Josef Sudek Fotografie, pl. 171; Josef Sudek, pl. 33 (there reversed)

Lot Essay

The presence of the bronze particles which are evenly dispersed throughout the image, suggests that Sudek experimented with this difficult manipulation of the photographic process. The bronze lends a patina to the surface unlike other pigment prints.