Josef SUDEK (1896-1976)
Zátiší podle Caravaggia-Noc (Still Life after Caravaggio)
Vintage silver print, 1956, image 9 x 11-5/16 in.
Titled and with various notations in the artist's hand on the verso
In this deeply tonal, even melancholic composition "after Caravaggio," Sudek's light is represented both as a diverse palette of values and as a tactile, voluminous component of the photographic space. Its soft ethereal cast, luminescent in the surrounding countertones, starkly backlights the feathers and defines the space, and its highlights, licking the lantern and imparting substance to shoetree and shell, assume materiality of their own. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston holds a variant of this composition with dramatically different lighting effects (acc. no. 1980-221).
"Everthing around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings... and I suppose that's lyricism." --Sudek, quoted in Sonja Bullaty, Sudek, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978, p. 27
Price: $7,500
Inquiries: mail@mobysnewt.com
Zátiší podle Caravaggia-Noc (Still Life after Caravaggio)
Vintage silver print, 1956, image 9 x 11-5/16 in.
Titled and with various notations in the artist's hand on the verso
In this deeply tonal, even melancholic composition "after Caravaggio," Sudek's light is represented both as a diverse palette of values and as a tactile, voluminous component of the photographic space. Its soft ethereal cast, luminescent in the surrounding countertones, starkly backlights the feathers and defines the space, and its highlights, licking the lantern and imparting substance to shoetree and shell, assume materiality of their own. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston holds a variant of this composition with dramatically different lighting effects (acc. no. 1980-221).
"Everthing around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings... and I suppose that's lyricism." --Sudek, quoted in Sonja Bullaty, Sudek, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978, p. 27
Price: $7,500
Inquiries: mail@mobysnewt.com