František Drtikol (1883-1961)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

1921
Vintage gelatin silver print on matte paper, mounted on card. 27.9x22.3 cm. Recto, lower left corner blind-stamped "DRTIKOL & SPOL. PRAHA 1921". On the mount marked with the artist`s stamp "DRTIKOL & SPOL. UMĚLECKÁ FOTOGRAFIE PRAHA 730", lower right below the image on the mount signed and dated in pencil "Drtikol 1921". Portrait of the Nobel Prize laureate for Literature (1913), made during his first brief visit to Prague in May 1921. The backing card slightly damaged; on the photograph only two very minor spots of lifted emulsion (ca. 1 mm) upper left.