MCCURRY STEVE MCCURRY STEVE
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States) 1950

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MCCURRY STEVE

MCCURRY STEVE Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States) 1950 Rajasthan, India. 1983. 2021 Digital Print on Museum Paper / Digital Print on Museum Paper. 15,20x15,20 Certificate of Authenticity. Hand-signed on the back by Steve McCurry. Limited edition on museum-quality paper, sold out in 2021. Published by Magnum Photos agency. -- Hand signed on the back by Steve McCurry. Limited edition on museum quality paper, sold out in 2021.

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Olympic Games/ summer, 1912/ Stockohlm/ Thorpe/ Jim Thorpe Set of 10 pieces about Jim Thorpe, his exploits, his Indian ancestry, and the atmostphere of the Games: a) Program dedicated (by the champion in pencil) to the 20th Annual American Indian Exposition in Anadarko, Oklahoma, in honor of Jim Thorpe, cover by Y.Lores, August 13-18, 1951 (the 18th Thorpe day), 20 p, 28x22, BE, rare; b) SuperBowl envelope of January 19, 1985, with Jim Thorpe (USA, 20c) stamp as US soccer player, San Francisco 49, National Conference Champions 85; c) two private originals, in black and white, of Jim Thorpe in front of a teepee with friends, 9x9; d) original press photo of Jim Thorpe in Los Angeles, June 29, 1931. With period caption. The champion with the attributes of his Sac Fox tribe. 20X15.5; e) image Greatest Olympians, Vth Olympiad 1912, Stockholm, USA, Jim Thorpe, 1983; f) two rare lithographed color cpa views of the 1912 Olympic Stadium from two angles, 9x14; g) Number 848 of "Tip Top Weekly, July 13, 1912, 5 cents, an ideal publication for the American Youth, the hero Dick Merriwell in Stockholm..." 20 of 32 pages (28x20)L two small chips on cover (Street and Smith Publischers, NY). In the same series, issues 847 and 49 are also devoted to the Games; h) Large official photo of Jim Thorpe high jump, published by The Olympic Comittee United States, b&w, 41x30.5.

Estim. 10 000 - 13 000 EUR

STEVE MCCURRY (USA, 1950). "Afghan Girl".Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984. Chromogenic print. Annotation on the back: "Fuji color chrystal Archive Paper". Signed in ink in the margin. Provenance: Cesare Manzo Gallery, Pescara, Italy. Measurements: 45.5 x 30.5 cm (image); 49.8 x 39.5 cm (frame). "The Afghan Girl" is the best known photograph of McCurry's career, and iconic for the history of documentary photography. He took it in 1984, in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan war. The girl, Sharbat Gula, was an Afghan refugee who had fled the violence in her country. The girl, with piercing green eyes and wrapped in a red shawl covering her shoulders and hair, captivated viewers around the world. The image appeared on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine, quickly becoming one of the best known and most powerful photographs of the 20th century. The image became a symbol of the suffering and resilience of refugees and conflict in Afghanistan. It has been widely used to illustrate the plight of refugees around the world. For many years, the identity of the girl in the photograph was a mystery. In 2002, McCurry and a National Geographic team located Sharbat Gula in a remote village in Afghanistan. Her identity was confirmed by recognizing her facial features, especially her eyes. Steve McCurry is an American photojournalist, known worldwide as the author of the photograph "The Afghan Girl," which appeared in National Geographic magazine in 1985. His career as a photographer began with the Afghan War (1978-1992). He has also covered other international conflicts such as the Iraq-Iran war or the Gulf War. After working in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, for two years, he went to India to work on his own in 1978. After a year there, he traveled to northern Pakistan. His career as a photographer began with his coverage of the Soviet war. In Afghanistan McCurry disguised himself in the country's garb to go unnoticed while working, and took film out of the country by sewing it into his clothes. His images were among the first to depict the conflict and were widely circulated. That work won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for best foreign photojournalism, and was published in The New York Times, TIME and Paris Match. McCurry continued to cover international conflicts, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War and Afghanistan. He survived a plane crash in Yugoslavia. His work has been published in magazines worldwide, and he is a regular contributor to National Geographic. He has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1986. In his work, McCurry concentrates on the pain caused by war. He tries to show what war does, but not only on the battlefield, but also to the people who live there. He argues that there is always something in common between all humans despite religion, language, ethnicity, etc.

Estim. 1 800 - 2 000 EUR

RAY K. METZKER (USA, 1931-2014). Untitled. 1997. Photograph. Signed and dated on the back. Measurements: 35 x 27 cm; 66 x 55.5 cm. Ray K. Metzker was an American photographer known primarily for his bold, experimental black-and-white cityscapes and for his large "compositions," assemblages of printed film strips and single frames. His work is held in several major public collections and is the subject of eight monographs. He has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Royal Photographic Society. Metzker was a student of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He taught for many years at the Philadelphia College of Art and also taught at the University of New Mexico. After graduate studies at the Institute of Design in Chicago, Metzker traveled extensively in Europe in 1960-61, where he had two epiphanies: that "light" would be his main theme and that he would seek synthesis and complexity over simplicity. Metzker used to say that the artist begins his explorations by embracing what he does not know. Awards: 1966: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1975: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. 1988: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. 1989: Bernheim Fellowship at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, Kentucky. 2000: Centenary Medal, Royal Photographic Society, Bath (HonFRPS). He is represented, among many other museums, at: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Museum of Modern Art, New York: 14 prints (as of 22 December 2021). J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: 14 prints (as of 15 December 2021). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Estim. 7 000 - 9 000 EUR

ANTONI TÀPIES PUIG (Barcelona, 1923 - 2012). "El cap", 1987. Engraving, copy HC 11/15. Signed and justified in pencil. Measurements: 98 x 130 cm.(print); 135 x 168 cm.(frame). Some of Tàpies' plastic inquiries of the eighties converge in "El Cap": numerology and alchemy (progression and sequence coded in the numbers 1,2,3,4), the Greek cross (with its spiritual sense beyond Christian dogma, added to the idea of intersection and personal identity) and the emphasis on zero as a symbol of emptiness and fullness, cycle and eternity, that is, conjugation of opposites. Finally, the calligraphy in black strokes defies legibility to emphasize the texture and the enigma of the text. Co-founder of "Dau al Set" in 1948, Tàpies began to exhibit in the Salones de Octubre in Barcelona, as well as in the Salón de los Once held in Madrid in 1949. After his first solo exhibition at the Layetanas Galleries, he travels to Paris in 1950, with a scholarship from the French Institute. In 1953 he had a solo exhibition at Martha Jackson's New York gallery. From then on, his exhibitions, both collective and individual, were held all over the world, in outstanding galleries and in museums such as the Guggenheim in New York or the Modern Art Museum in Paris. Since the seventies, anthologies have been dedicated to him in Tokyo, New York, Rome, Amsterdam, Madrid, Venice, Milan, Vienna and Brussels. Self-taught, Tàpies has created his own style within the avant-garde art of the 20th century, combining tradition and innovation in an abstract style but full of symbolism, giving great importance to the material substratum of the work. It is worth mentioning the marked spiritual sense given by the artist to his work, where the material support transcends its state to signify a profound analysis of the human condition. Tàpies' work has been highly valued internationally, being exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world. Throughout his career he has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Praemium Imperiale of Japan, the National Culture Award, the Grand Prize for Painting in France, the Wolf Foundation of the Arts (1981), the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1983), the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts (1990), the Picasso Medal of Unesco (1993) and the Velázquez Prize for the Plastic Arts (2003). Antoni Tàpies is represented in major museums around the world, such as the foundation that bears his name in Barcelona, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Guggenheim in Berlin, Bilbao and New York, the Fukoka Art Museum in Japan, the MoMA in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.

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