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JOSEF SUDEK (1896–1976)
10 Photographs, 1940-1972
Cologne: Rudolf Kicken Gallery, 1982. 10 gelatin silver prints printed by Lobo Kotek, each signed by art historian Anna Fárová in pencil in photographer's credit and Kicken Gallery stamp and numbered sequentially with print numbers '1-10' and portfolio number '22' in ink; each image ranges from approximately 3 x 4 1/4 in. (7.6 x x 10.7 cm.) to 10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (26.9 x 20.6 cm.), each sheet ranges from approximately 8 x 11 7/8 in. (20.3 x 30.1 cm.) to 15 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. (39.6 x 29.5 cm.); prints housed in mat boards and enclosed in paper folio together with a linen clamshell case with artist name and title in typset, 20 5/8 x 16 x 1 in. (52.3 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm.); accompanied with colophon; number twenty-two from an edition of fifty.
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Plates are as follows:

1. White Rose Bud, 1954
2. From the Cycle "Labyrinths of Glass," 1963-72
3. Bread, Egg and Glass, 1950
4. From the Cycle "The Window of my Atelier," 1940-54
5. From the Cycle "A Walk in the Magic Garden," 1954-59
6. The Painter Václav Sivko, 1955
7. Walk on Kampa Island, 1947
8. Walk on the Bank of the Elbe, 1960
9. Landscape in Middle Bohemia, 1964
10. From the Cycle "Labyrinths of Glass," 1963-72

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