Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

423 c JOSEF SUDEK (1896-1976) Profily 1 * The Photographs of Josef Sudek . A pair of portfolios by the Czech master photographer, comprised of a total of 31 prints of Sudek’s elegiac and ethereal photographs. The first with 18 (of 18) photographs, including 4 panoramas, and the second with 13 (of 13) photographs, mostly consisting of garden, window, and architectural studies. Silver prints, the images ranging from 3 3 / 8 x11 to 11 1 / 4 x8 3 / 8 inches (8.6x27.9 to 28.6x21.3 cm.), each of the group of 18 with the stamped title and negative date. Each set housed in a printed pictorial folding jacket; the first white with black printing, with the titles on the back inside f lap; the second silver with black printing, with a printed booklet (in Czech, German, Russian, English, and French); all contents loose as issued. Prague: Panorama, 1980 and Prague: Pressfoto, 1977 WITH— Praha Panoromatika. Profusely illustrated with Sudek’s sweeping panoramas of Prague. Oblong 4to, white linen-covered boards with decorative black stamping; some light edgewear visible. Prague: Statni Nakladatelstvi, 1959. [700/1,000]