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[Ladislav Sutnar China: Tea Service Arranged on Table, Viewed from Above]

Artist:
Josef Sudek (Czech, 1896–1976)
Date:
1920s
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
23.4 x 17.2 cm. (9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:
1987.1100.265
Rights and Reproduction:
© Josef Sudek, courtesy of Josef Sudek Estate
Not on view
Inscription: Photographer's stamp in box on print, verso UC: "FOTOGRAFOVAL JOSEF SUDEK // COPYRIGHT BY DRUZSTEVNI PRACE // Bez tohoto dodatku nesmi byti // fotografie reprodukovßna [circle on lower left and on lower right sides of box]"; stamped on print, verso C, sideways: "020", "Sutnar"
[Robert Koch to Waddell, August 3, 1982]; John C. Waddell

Sudek made several advertisements for Ladislav Sutner. See Fotograf Josef Sudek, Umeleckoprumysolé Muzeum, Duben-Carven 1976, (Introduction)

Essays
Photography in Europe, 1945-60

Timelines
Central Europe (not Austria, Germany, and Switzerland), 1900 A.D.-present

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