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FRANTISEK DRTIKOL: GRACE

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BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE

Weekly transmission 111/2-2018 presents: Frantisek Drtikol : Grace before anything else A pigment print sent to Paris Photo Salon, 1929 Previous transmissions can be found at:

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Grace before anything else

From 1923 onwards, Drtikol gradually moved away from pictorialist and symbolist schools and moved very personally towards avant-garde movements, cubism, futurism and expressionism. In his works dating from his great period 1923-1929, often very careful pigment prints, we observe the importance of light modulation, details that accentuate the beauty of elementary forms. Drtikol promotes dynamic poses by using tight planes, or creating the illusion of movement in a number of detail changes, adding to the composition impressive accessories, cylindrical rods, creating deep shadows projected on the backgrounds.

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At the same time, he accentuates the dynamism by the confrontation of the bodies with rounded shapes with stairs of sharp shapes, slabs, blocks and other geometric decorations.

While previously Drtikol photographed women as symbolic literary figures, now in his films, dancers and gymnasts celebrate the ancient ideal of physical health and transcended beauty.

Even more important is the place left in his work to the erotic dimension. Most of its many models have seen their charm resist all the transformations of contemporary taste for eight decades. However, for Drtikol, photography was above all a manifesto, a symbolic means of displaying philosophical, religious and psychological questions that seemed fundamental to him.

Although in the 1920s he became internationally renowned, his work was later forgotten during the German occupation of Germanic Europe and the long winter of popular democracies that followed.

Before entering the pantheon of the history of photography.

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Further reading online : František Drtikol: Akty z let 1923-1929 Poslední příležitost shlédnout unikátní díla Františka Drtikola před ukončením výstavy v Opavě, 2015. (Kurátor: Vladimír Birgus).

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Frantisek Drtikol ( 1883–1961). Krok, Footsteps (Quatre Études de pas), Prag, 1929.

Four different studies are known, each in unique or few prints.

Public collection: Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague - UPM

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FrantisĚŒek Drtikol (1883-1961). "Le Pas". Prague, 1929 Vintage exhibition pigment print, 227x270 mm, stamped, mounted, signed on mount, signed and titled by the artist, recto, exhibition labels recto.

Oger-Blanchet 5 April 2018 auction, lot 26

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24 PARIS PHOTO ART EXHIBITION, 4 OCT 1929

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The show accepted 774 photographic prints, reproducing 48 in the catalogue. From Prag, Drtikol sent “Linie” and “le Pas”, Krupka, some religious compositions.

Photographic auction 5 April 2018

Expert : RAPHAEL CHICHEPORTICHE raphael.chich@gmail.com 06.52.96.38.11

Expositions publiques salle 15 mardi 03 avril 2018 de 11h à18h mercredi 04 avril et jeudi 05 avril de 11h à12h

Paper catalogue can be ordered to OGER - BLANCHET 22 rue Drouot 75009 Paris 01.42.46.96.95 contact@ogerblanchet.fr

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