Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Robert Capa
Death of a Loyalist Militiaman near Espejo, Córdoba Front, Spain (Falling Soldier)
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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Robert Capa
1913 - 1954
Death of a Loyalist Militiaman near Espejo, Córdoba Front, Spain (Falling Soldier)
gelatin silver print, the photographer's Magnum credit, Magnum Photos, and John Hillelson Agency stamps on the reverse, framed
image: 9¾ by 13⅝ in. (24.8 by 34.6 cm.)
frame: 17⅜ by 20½ in. (44 by 52 cm.)
Executed in 1936, probably printed in the 1950s.
Private collection, Paris
Private collection, Tokyo
Francoise Paviot, Paris
Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner
Krems, Kunstmeile Krems, Lebenslust & Totentanz, July - November 2010
Paris, La Maison Rouge, Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, October 2011 - January 2012
Berlin, Atelierkomplex Lehderstrasse, NGORONGORO, 2015
Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019
"La Guerre Civile en Espagne," VU Magazine, 23 September 1936, no. 445, p. 1106
LIFE , 12 July 1937, vol. 3, no. 2. p. 19
Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, Death in the Making (New York, 1938), cover
Cornell Capa, ed., The Concerned Photographer (New York, 1968), unpaginated
Cornell Capa, Bhupendra Karia, eds., Robert Capa, 1913-1954 (New York, 1974), cover, pp. 20-1
Sammlung Gruber, Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1985), p. 202
Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan, Robert Capa. Photographs (New York, 1985), pp. 42-3
Robert Capa: Photographs (New York, 1996), p. 39
Aperture, Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War (New York, 1999), p. 26
Robert Capa: Images of War (London, 1964), pp. 22-3
Richard Whelan, This Is War! Robert Capa at Work (New York, 2007), back cover and figs. 40, 43, 45, 47, 48, 58, 59, and 77
Lebenslust & Totentanz (Krems: Kunstmeile Krems, 2010), p. 102 (this print)
Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht (Paris: La Maison Rouge, 2011), p. 127 (this print)
The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), p. 129 (this print)
Michel Lefebvre, ed., Robert Capa: Death in the Making (Paris, 2024), cover and p. 61
