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Francois KOLLAR SS NORMANDIE VINTAGE PRINT MODERNIST Avant Garde PHOTOGRAPH #1

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Original price was: $5,280.00.Current price is: $3,168.00.

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Cruise Ship & Ocean Liner : SS Normandie
Steamship Ocean Liner : CGT Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Condition : Used
Modified Item : No
Country/Region of Manufacture : France

Original vintage silver print photograph of the Ocean
Liner SS Normandie under construction for the Compagnie Generale
Transatlantique passenger steamship transport company, circa 1931. Born in
Austria-Hungary, the modernist photographer Francois Kollar (1904-1979) moved
to Paris in 1923, and worked briefly for the master arts printer Draeger,
before opening his owner photography studio in 1928, aged 24. This image of the
SS Normandie derives from the early part of his career when he was deeply immersed
in the European avant garde of the time,
and produced a number of superb modernist images, including this image.
Kollar’s work is held in important institutional photography collections around
the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. With multiple
Kollar studio stamps, and the remains of a Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
label of the period affixed to the verso. This is an original vintage print
from Kollar’s studio in 1931 – not a later reproduction. Similar Kollar vintage prints are occasionally offered at auction by Christies and Sotheby’s, a recent auction result for a vintage Kollar silver print from the same era appears in the image set for reference. Format: Oblong (225mm x 165mm) PLEASE SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS for RELATED MATERIAL on the
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