Prev / Next

Photographs: Unveiled Beauty

Thursday 14 March 2024, 03:00 PM • Milan

56

Jan Saudek

(1935)

The Flame #297, 1990

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 700 - 1.000

Sold

€ 1.032

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Chromogenic vintage print
cm 50,6 x 57,3 (cm 47,8 x 48,4 picture) | 19.9 x 22.6 in. (18.8 x 19 in. picture)
Signed in black ink on the image and titled in black ink on the white inferior recto margin

Literature

C. Fricke (edited by), Jan Saudek, Taschen, Koln, 1998, p. 154
Faced with Jan Saudek's photographs, attitudes can vary: one can appreciate the provocative audacity with which he proposes a nude that is never banal, or be bewildered by postures that do not exclude ruthlessness, linger over the sinuosity of women's bodies or grieve at the way they are so cruelly exhibited. But on one thing one cannot disagree: the refined originality with which the Prague photographer treats his prints, colouring them with manual interventions that embellish them, making them unique.