JOSEF KOUDELKA (B. 1938)

France (Nord Pas-de-Calais), from Chaos, 1989

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JOSEF KOUDELKA (B. 1938)
France (Nord Pas-de-Calais), from Chaos, 1989
gelatin silver print
signed in ink (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 13 x 41 1/2 in. (33 x 105.3 cm.)
sheet: 22 x 48 in. (55.8 x 121.8 cm.)

Provenance

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997.

Literature

Anna Farova, Josef Koudelka, Torst, Prague, 2002, p. 76.
Matthew S. Witkovsky (ed.), Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2014, pl. 129, p. 202-203.

Lot Essay

“The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what’s left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.” – Josef Koudelka

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