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

 

Artist: Robert Capa (Hungarian, 1913-1954).
Title: "Death of a Loyalist Soldier [large format]".
Medium: Original photogravure.
Date: Composed 1936. Printed 1979.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (295 x 400 mm). Image size: 8 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. (219 x 327 mm).
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition size unknown. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition. 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. [27184-3-1200]