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Lot 594 D

Jewgeni Chaldej - The Reindeer Jascha, Murmansk

Auction 1222 - overview Cologne
06.06.2023, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
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Jewgeni Chaldej

The Reindeer Jascha, Murmansk
1941

Gelatin silver print, printed 1990s. 28 x 38 cm (29.9 x 39.8 cm). Signed in pencil on the verso.

"Our fighter planes were made of wood. That's why we breathed a sigh of relief when the English came with their twenty 'Hurricans'. This reindeer lived wildly. We called it Yascha. Then, when they were shooting, it kept coming to our battery, to the people. The soldiers built a small stable and fed it well. When the air-raid alarm was given, they would hit a railway track with a hammer -- din, din, din. Jascha heard this and came running. I was asked if this was a photomontage. For me it's a 'combination' to enhance the expression." (Jewgeni Chaldej, in: Volland/Krimmer, op.cit., p. 48)

Provenance

From the photographer to the present owner

Literature

Ernst Volland/Heinz Krimmer (ed.), Jewgeni Chaldej. Der Bedeutende Augenblick, exhib.cat. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Leipzig 2008, ill. pp. 48.