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Révész-Biró (Imre Révész, 1895-1975; and Irma Biró, active 20th Century)
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Révész-Biró (Imre Révész, 1895-1975; and Irma Biró, active 20th Century)
- SELECTED IMAGES
- Unique object, gelatin silver print with text in white gouache
2 photographs, including 'Gondos, Fontos, Megbizhato, Gyors, Olcso' and Hands Outstretched, the first a unique object, with text in white gouache, the photographer's letterpress credit affixed to the image, reduction notations in pencil on the reverse; the second mounted and overmatted, signed in pencil on the overmat, both framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1930 and 1938 (2)
Provenance
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1994
Exhibited
West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008
Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)
Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)
Catalogue Note
The Hungarian duo Révész-Biró consisted of Imre Révész and Irma Biró, about whom little is known. Operating in Budapest, the pair created photographs and photographic compositions for advertising purposes. In the early 1930s, they authored the book 'Photo reklam' (Photo Advertising), a manual for the advertising photographer. The Hungarian words lettered by hand onto the first print offered here can be translated as follows: 'caring, relevant, reliable, fast, inexpensive' (cf. Witkovsky, Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, pp. 90 and 242).