Bohumil Němec (1912-1985)

Fotoskupina Pěti (1933-1936)

STILL LIFE

before 1935
Vintage gelatin silver print on matte paper - pseudo relief. 25,2x22,8 cm, mounted on exhibition board 46,8x34,7 cm with a typewritten label. Dedication in ballpoint to A. Dufek with artist`s signature and annotations in pencil on the verso. Provenance: from the collection of PhDr. Antonín Dufek. Publ.: Howard Greenberg, Annette & Rudolf Kicken, Czech Vision. Avant-Garde Photography in Czechoslovakia, Ostfildern 2007, č. 92; Antonín Zezula, Fotoskupina pěti v kontextu české fotografie mezi léty 1918 až 1948, diploma thesis, SDU FF MU, Brno 2016, s. 60; Jan Chaloupka: Fotografie surrealistická, in: Fotografie 1933/1934, č. 13-14, s. ... Another copy is in the collections of The Moravian Gallery in Brno, inv. no. MG8909. Minor crack (tear) lower left approximately 7 mm, slightly creased paper in lower left corner, slightly broken upper right corner, minor silver mirroring in the darks, remnants of tape on the verso.