Lot #917: ROBERT CAPA - Death of a Loyalist Soldier - Original photogravure

 

Artist: Robert Capa (Hungarian, 1913-1954).
Title: "Death of a Loyalist Soldier [medium format]".
Medium: Original photogravure.
Date: Composed 1936. Printed 1968.
Dimensions: Overall size: 4 9/16 x 7 in. (116 x 178 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $800/1,000
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board.
Comment(s): Almost universally considered the most eerily fascinating of all war photographs, this famous image reportedly depicts the death of Spanish Loyalist militiaman Frederico Borrell Garcia as he is struck in the chest by a Nationalist bullet on a barren Iberian hillside. Robert Capa was born Endre Erno Friedmann. Image copyright © The International Center of Photography. [29469-1-600-NA]