Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Jaromír Funke (1896-1945)
Lot 40

Jaromír Funke (1896-1945)

Untitled, c. 1923

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 32,500

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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.)

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

Specialist note

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