Lot n° 186
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
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Result
: 3 539EUR
Jindrich HEISLER & Jindrich ŠTYRSKÝ.
Na jehlach techto dni. Prague, Fr. Borovy, 1945.
In-8: aubergine half-leather, black percale boards with photographic cover mounted on the first (period binding).
Famous Czech surrealist album laid out by Karel Teige: it is illustrated with 28 black-and-white photographs by Jindrich Štyrský.
Second edition.
The album was first published clandestinely during the Occupation "in a tiny edition with gelatin-silver bromide proofs and is therefore extremely rare. Hardly less rare, the first "real" edition appeared after the war in 1945. Karel Teige, another renowned Czech surrealist, signed the sober and elegant graphic design. Produced with little means but with the greatest care, the book revives the memory of Štyrský (who died in 1942), on the one hand, and is a relevant and poetic meditation on the war and the Nazi occupation, on the other" (Martin P Parr and Gerry Badger).
Important signed autograph dispatch: to André Breton on behalf of Štyrský and to me
Jindrich Heisler 5.VII.46
Unique copy enriched with the autograph manuscript of the French translation of all the texts.
Handled copy having suffered a little from humidity. The illustrated cover, mounted on the first board, is partly browned.
(Parr and Badger, The Book of Photographs I, p. 197: "This work still resonates fifty years after the war. It is a wonderful illustration of one of the great truths of the book of photographs: what counts is not necessarily the image itself, but what you do with it.")
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