Lot 43

(GYMNASTICS--CZECHOSLOVAKIA)

An album documenting the Sokol Slet XI in Prague.

This album with 50 photographs documenting the massive and exuberant all-age gymnastics festival in modernist imagery that reflects the aesthetics of the period. Close up images show small groups of men, women, and children in various choreographed formations and mid-exercise, others are bird's-eye views of a stadium filled with thousands, all executing movements in perfect synchronization. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 5¼x7 inches (14x17.8 cm.), and the reverse, cornered to black pages, each with a hand stamp on verso; with the original interleafing spider-webbed glassine. Small folio, pictorial cover with the date; tie binding. 1948