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Portrait of Andrej Bobruska

(Czechoslovakian, 1896–1976)
1960
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 23.5 x 17.6 cm (9 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.3 x 22.4 cm (11 15/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Credit LineHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund for Photography
Accession number2012.784
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsAuthenticated on the verso: "I certify hereby that this is a photograph made by Josef Sudek. Zdenek Kirschner, Curator, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague 2-7-81" In Anne Baruch's hand on the reverse: "Purchased from the wife of the sitter. Portrait of Andrej Bobruska, 1960 by Josef Sudek": ref. 81646
Provenance1981, sold or given by Lída Bobrusková, wife of the sitter Andrej Bobruska, to the Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago; passed by inheritance to the Baruch Foundation, Chicago; 2012, sold by the Baruch Foundation to the MFA. (Accession date: October 24, 2012)