Jan Svoboda (1934-1990)

SHELL

1962
Vintage gelatin silver print on semi-matte paper, 19.5 × 28.4 cm. Recto at the top centre dated in pencil "1962". Verso with a pencil letter from the author to his friend (Antonín Dufek) from 1973. The photograph is folded horizontally and vertically to fit into a postal envelope, with emulsion partly peeled off along the folds and frayed upper corners. Provenance: from the estate of PhDr. Antonín Dufek. Another copy: Moravian Gallery in Brno, inv. no. MG 16646.