12th Oct, 2019 16:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2019

 
  Lot 44
 

ROBERT CAPA (1913–1954)
‘The Falling soldier’ (Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death), Córdoba front, September 5th, 1936

Sold for €20,000


Lot details

Estimate: € 10.000–12.000

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1964

22,8 x 34 cm

Photographer's “IMAGES OF WAR” publication stamp and copyright agency stamp on the reverse

PROVENANCE Estate of James A. Fox (former Magnum editor in chief)

LITERATURE La Guerre Civile en Espagne, VU Magazine, 23.9.1936; Robert Capa, Death in Spain, Life Magazine, 12. Juli 1937; Robert Robert Capa / Gerda Taro (eds.), Death In The Making: Photographs by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, New York 1938, cover; Richard Whelan (ed.), Robert Capa – The definitive collection, London 2001, p. 81; Cornell Capa/Richard Whelan (eds.), Robert Capa. Photographs, New York 1985, p. 42-43.

Start price: €5.000