Jaromír Funke (1896-1945)

Untitled, c. 1923

Details

Jaromír Funke (1896-1945)
Untitled, c. 1923
gelatin silver print
credit, signature, and various annotations by Dr. Miloslava Rupesova, the photographer's daughter, in pencil (verso)
image: 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (12.2 x 17.2 cm.)
sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in. (12.2 x 18.2 cm.)

Provenance

Thomas V. Meyer Fine Art, San Francisco, California, 2011.

Literature

Suzanne E. Pastor (ed.), Jaromír Funke: Photographs 1919-1943, Kant, Prague, 1995, n.p.
Antonin Dufek, Jaromír Funke: Pioneering Avant-Garde Photography, Moravian Gallery, Brno, 1996, pl. 12, p. 94.

Descriptif du lot

In these abstract photographs it is clearly demonstrated that simple reality has much that is mysterious about it -- something which makes photography fantastic -- and a novel and evocative poetic value.
Jaromír Funke, From the Photogram to Emotion, 1940

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