Lot 210: JINDRICH STYRSKY (Czech, 1899-1942) UNTITL...

JINDRICH STYRSKY
(Czech, 1899-1942)
UNTITLED (FROM ON THE NEEDLES OF THESE DAYS), 1934
gelatin silver print
3 11/16 x 3 1/2 in. (9.4 x 8.9 cm); name and date inscribed in blue ink
on verso

Jindrich Styrsky and Heisler, na Jehlách Techto dní, PRAGUE, Fr. Borovy, 1945, p. 44; Petr Tausk, "Roots of Modern Photography in Czechoslovakia," History of Photography, July, 1979, fig.16; Vladimir Birgus, ?CESKÁ FOTOGRAFICKÁ AVANTGARDA: 1918-1948, PRAGUE, Kant, 1998, p. 231 (illustrated); Anne Tucker, Marvelous in the Everyday: Surrealist Photography of Jindrich Styrsky; Karel Srp, Jindrich Styrsky, Prague, Torst, 2001, pl. 29 (illustrated)

Toyen, colleague and confidant of Styrsky and Heisler