Lot 38
  • 38

Rudolf Koppitz

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Rudolf Koppitz
  • Four Dance Studies with Hedy Pfundmayr, c. 1920s
  • photograph
Four silver prints. Each with the photographer's blindstamp in the lower right corner. Three with the 'Prof. Rudolf Koppitz Photo-Werkstätte Wien, V. Zeinlhoferg. 8' stamp, two with the 'Telefon B 20-7-93' stamp, one signed by Hedy Pfundmayr and annotated Solotänzerin in pencil and with the Hedy Pfundmayr studio stamp.

Provenance

Estate of Hedy Pfundmayr, Vienna

Literature

Monika Faber, Rudolf Koppitz Photogenie 1884 - 1936, Vienna, Christian Brandstätter Verlag,  2013, ill. p. 144. 

Condition

These prints are in generally very good condition. Two prints are in excellent condition. All with very light silvering in the dark areas along the edges. One print with a diagonal crease (approx. 1.5cm) in the lower left corner and the lower corners slightly bumped. One print with a diagonal fold (approx. 7cm) from the lower left corner to the centre mainly visible in raking light only, some creases (approx. 2cm) at the left edge and a faint ball point pen mark (approx. 2cm) in the lower right quadrant.
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