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Silver gelatin print blind-stamped photographer’s stamp (lower right). Mounted on reverse. Photographer’s label with signature, handwritten inscription a. numbered 13/30. Inscription hand numbered 13/30 (by another hand). Gallery stamp. edition 13/30, negative dated 1974, printed later 36.5 x 50 cm

vintage gelatin silver print on fiber base paper Stamp ‘Fotografie/ TONO STANO/ Praha’ (lower right) Image: 48 x 44 cm Frame: 82 x 67 cm Literature: Certainty and Searching in Czech Photography of the 1990s, Vladimir Birgus & Miroslav Vojtechovsky, 1996

vintage gelatin silver print on fiber base paper Stamp ‘Fotografie/ TONO STANO/ Praha’ (lower right) Image: 48 x 44 cm Frame: 82 x 67 cm Literature: Certainty and Searching in Czech Photography of the 1990s, Vladimir Birgus & Miroslav Vojtechovsky, 1996

Digital chromogenic print, Diasec mounted 75 x 100 cm

Archival pigment print Edition of 10 image: 60.7 x 81.2 cm (a vue) frame: 83.8 x 104 cm Provenance: Galerie Waldburger, Switzerland. Private collection, acquired from the above by the present owner

silver gelatin print on paper signed, numbered, and dated in pencil ‘2011 1/10 Solve Sundsbo’ (on reverse), accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity edition 1/10, negative dated 2006, printed in 2011 image: 46 x 34.4 cm sheet: 51 x 40 cm

Unidentified signature and annotation in English (on the reverse) Gelatin silver print circa 1940s. 26 х 24 cm Provenance: Private collection, Israel With his sculptural faces and his highly innovative work on light, Helmar Lerski (1871 - 1956) is one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century. Born in Strasbourg, he pursued a career as a theatre actor in the United States before devoting himself to photography from the 1910s. In Berlin in 1915, he became a renowned cinematographer and a specialist in special effects. From then on, his photographic work, which made virtuoso use of his mastery of light, combined an aesthetic inherited from expressionist cinema with the most daring experiments of the «New Vision». Fleeing Nazism, Lerski settled in Palestine in 1932, leaving an exceptional record of the kibbutz and the pioneers, as well as of the Jewish soldiers in the British army. Deeply humanistic, his series «Arabs and Jews» is a manifesto of tolerance, and his «Metamorphoses by Light» an original exploration of the expressive power of a face.

Unidentified signature and annotation in English (on the reverse) Gelatin silver print circa 1940s. 29 х 24 cm Provenance: Private collection, Israel With his sculptural faces and his highly innovative work on light, Helmar Lerski (1871 - 1956) is one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century. Born in Strasbourg, he pursued a career as a theatre actor in the United States before devoting himself to photography from the 1910s. In Berlin in 1915, he became a renowned cinematographer and a specialist in special effects. From then on, his photographic work, which made virtuoso use of his mastery of light, combined an aesthetic inherited from expressionist cinema with the most daring experiments of the «New Vision». Fleeing Nazism, Lerski settled in Palestine in 1932, leaving an exceptional record of the kibbutz and the pioneers, as well as of the Jewish soldiers in the British army. Deeply humanistic, his series «Arabs and Jews» is a manifesto of tolerance, and his «Metamorphoses by Light» an original exploration of the expressive power of a face.