16th Apr, 2021 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Spring 2021

 
Lot 69
 

ROBERT CAPA (1913–1954)
‘The Falling Soldier’ (Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death), Córdoba front, September 5th, 1936

Sold for €3,400


Lot details

Estimate: € 6.000-7.000

Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970

22,8 x 34 cm

Photographer's agency stamp and handwritten numerical notations in pencil on the reverse

LITERATURE La Guerre Civile en Espagne, VU Magazine, 23.9.1936; Robert Capa, Death in Spain, Life Magazine, 12. Juli 1937; Robert Capa / Gerda Taro (eds.), Death In The Making: Photographs by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, New York 1938, cover; Richard Whelan (ed.), Robert Capa – The definitive collection, London 2001, p. 81; Cornell Capa/Richard Whelan (eds.), Robert Capa. Photographs, New York 1985, p. 42-43.

Start price: €3.400