Zuppaiera
c. 1937
Most people know Joseph Sudek as the 'Poet of Prague,' famous for his moody photographs of rain-slicked streets and cluttered studios. But this delicate sketch reveals his eye for form in a completely different medium! Created around 1937, it’s a design drawing for an 'Iron Stone China' soup tureen, complete with a manufacturer's crest and catalog number '105 C'. Considering Sudek lost his right arm in World War I and learned to hold his heavy camera with his left, the precision of this shading is truly impressive—it shows the same careful attention to light and shape that defined his later still-life photography.
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