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Lot 200
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$250
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
DRAHOMÍR JOSEF RUZICKA (CZECH/AMERICAN, 1870–1960) VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY FROM CENTRAL PARK
Ca. 1930s, printed later. Three photographs. Photographer's initial "R" in ink on lower right below image. Gelatin silver print.
Image: 8 3/4 x 7 in. (22.2 x 17.8cm).
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 in. (24.1 x 17.8cm).
After retiring from medicine (he was one of the first doctors to use X-rays), Ruzicka took up photography. When he visited his native Czechslovakia, he shared his modernist techniques and images with local camera clubs, influencing a new generation of photogaphers such as Josef Sudek.
Sold with two additional photographs, Old Man Playing Violin, and Charles Bridge, Winter (Prague), both gelatin silver prints, both initialed "R" in ink on verso, each image approximately 8 3/4 x 7 in. (22.2 x 17.8cm), sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 in. (24.1 x 17.8cm).