拍品 16
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IDA KAR | L'Etreinte (The Embrace)

估價
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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描述

  • Ida Kar
  • L'Etreinte (The Embrace)
  • stamped with Idabel Photographe mark on the reverse
  • vintage silver print 
  • 52 by 41cm.; 20 1/2 by 16 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1940.

來源

Private Collection, Egypt
Private Collection, Avignon (acquired directly from the above)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the above in 2008)

展覽

Cairo, Cercle du Nile, First exhibition of Independent Art, 8-24 February 1940
Paris, Centre Pompidou; Dusseldorf, Kunst Sammlung; Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia; Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938 - 1948), 2016-2018

出版

Ahmed Rassim, Journal d'un peintre raté, Cairo, 1950s, n.p.
Exhib. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou; Dusseldorf, Kunst Sammlung; Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia; Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938 - 1948), 2016-2018, pp. 204-205, illustrated in colour

Condition

Condition: This work is in fair condition. There are 6 pinholes on the right and left edges from hanging. There are a few minor surface imperfections and scratches in particular on the centre top and extreme left centre edge. There are also lightly visible spots of staining and some foxing along the outer edges in particular, inherent to the age of the work. There is no restoration apparent when viewed under the UV light. Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate with more of a yellow tint and tonality across the original work.
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拍品資料及來源

"The most disconcerting work of this visionary photographer is certainly the one titled L'Etreinte where two columns in ruins rise with their grave majesty to the sky [...]Idabel succeeded in setting, in black and white, the marvellous intelligence reigning in volumes, creating a work surpassing in linear splendor all what the Ancients tried to realize in their temples […] A work of art that reaches such a magnificence in splendour. […] Idabel achieved this photographic miracle with two fleshless cutlets of sculptural nobility, seductive as the voluptuous arms of the loved one… two cutlets photographed from ten centimetres away. Two veal cutlets tendered by diffused light."

Ahmed Rassim cited in Ahmed Rassim, 'A propos d'une conference', Le Journal d'un peintre raté, Cairo, 1950s, pp. 32-34